The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Get Shocked By The Rockies, Losing 6-1 In The First Game Of The Series

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

Astros Get Shocked By The Rockies, Losing 6-1 In The First Game Of The Series

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-0-2 at H-Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. The Astros with the return of Gjordaun Avarez ends in a thud, as they lose their second in a row tonight, falling to the Rockies, 6 to 1. I'm going to say to shock. What the hell was that last night?

I got news for you. Jackson's, like before Michael went solo and after Jackson 5? This is some good music right here. This music is better than what we saw last out of Duncan Park. Hi, gang. 1004 on this Wednesday morning, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross is off today, back with us tomorrow. You're not going to win all 162.

You'd love to win close to 100, but that's not going to happen this year. You'd love to win more than you. lose. You'd love to win as many as you possibly can so you can climb a division championship. You'd love to be able to win as enough to maybe secure a buy in the first round, which probably is not going to happen unless the aster is put together some incredible run. You're going to have a series of games over the course of the year that's going to make you upset. And you're going to lose the teams you shouldn't be losing to. The Colorado Rockies suck.

And I don't like to use that term very often because that's just an indictment against a group of people or a person. You can say this person underperforms. You can say a team is underwhelming or not talented enough. But sometimes when you're 38 and now 94, 37 and 94 going into the game yesterday, sometimes you just say they suck. And the Astros lost to a team that sucks. Series wins are important. I will take series wins because I'm, you know, two out of three ain't bad, as the late meatloaf would tell you. And you had to be feeling pretty good for two things early on.

First of all, you're on Alvarez back in the lineup yesterday. Got his four plate appearances. Then you had Jesus Sanchez with his first home run at Dinkin Park. And I mean a massive launch for him. You're thinking, this is the start of things. and then the defense let you down. Jeremy Payne in particular. And Hunter Brown, the diesel,

ran out of gas. Now, granted, of the six runs he allowed, only two of which were earned because of the double errors in the play, he did have seven strikeouts, but, and he did give you length, because frankly, that's what every astro starters should be doing this time of year, even though they are multiple times through the rotation. What a kick in the shorts, right guys and gals?

Now, truth be told, I was at my daughter's volleyball game last night, so I had the game on the EBR when I got to the house, and I watched it as for as long as I could, and then I vomited. I didn't vomit, but you get my drift. So I have not looked at Astro's Twitter today, and that's the site where you go to the Astro's web, website and you print and they give you the score and the comments come in below. We'll take a look at

that. We'll have an a.O. coming up at 1020 because I feel like that my guess is it's going to be a surly group. But how in the world do you only score one run? How in the world do you only get six hits? How? How does this happen? The starting pitcher for the Rockies last night, Tanner Gordon. Tanner Gordon. six innings, one earn run, five strikeouts, the only run he surrenders is the Hesu Sanchez home run, and after going six scoreless yesterday, or six innings with one run, his ERA dropped, as you would expect it would, to 6.44. 6.44.

Mickey Moniac. Moniac, I don't care how you pronounce it. No one should know who a rocky is. They sure as hell don't know who he is in Denver. They shouldn't know when they are in Houston. And then last night, after the Astros lost their game, okay, Padres score five in the, I think it was in the first inning last night.

Then the Mariners get a pair of three-run home runs in one inning and take a six-five lead. I'm like, oh, hell no. San Diego, you let me down. But then San Diego came back and won the game. So as frustrating as it may be for the many of you that are Astro fans that had to watch or listen to that last night, thank you, San Diego.

You know what? What did Anchorman say back in the day? Jonathan helped me with that with Anchorman. What did he say? He said, keep it tight in San Diego. Hope you're feeling better, San Diego. Your guess is good as mine. You didn't see Anchorman?

I have no idea what you're talking about. You have never seen a movie Anchorman. No. A legitimate belly laugher of a movie. Anchorman. Anchorman. Okay, let me look it up. What the hell?

What are you doing the last 10 years? Oh, you just run around the track. Running around track, exactly. You don't get off that damn track. Now, Ron Bergerty did say one legendary phrase about San Diego that cost him his job for a while, but that's neither here nor there. We cannot pronounce it on the show. Gordon, what did Ron Burgundy say for the most part?

Keep it cool, San Diego. I don't believe you. No. San Diego. Spanish for a Wales. Vagina. We can say vagina. 6 to 1.

We got Aos coming up at 1020. He ran that character into the ground, though. They were doing an I-Heart podcast hosted by Ron Burr. Yeah, but that's one of the 9,000 podcasts that don't do well on our I-Heart network. I believe the San Diego. MLS Preparatory podcast does better. Sarah Spain's podcast does better. Mm-hmm.

Who's the one that's the AZ Fudd? I got that one going right now. About hitting on girls at the All-Star game or something? It's going to happen. And, of course, you can always check out the Crawford Boxcast, so they're awesome myself. I mean, I would normally ask you guys promote your website or your podcast because it's largely a waste of time.

I mean, the material I'm going to bring is significantly better than whatever you and Ross are going to ring. But in this particular case, I would follow the Crawford Box. Well, the one that killed me was they were promoting, and this is, you know, part of being I hired a national brand. They were promoting a podcast on this San Diego FC team. Yeah, the future MLS team. If you're going to do that, then Ross and I's podcast should be, I mean, promote that nationally. You got that right. In Milwaukee. Hey, Astros fans, you want to hear a podcast? Yeah. Makes as much sense. That's fine. All right. So six to one. Again, the Padres do win. Congratulations to the Padres for the victory over six.

Seattle and the Astros maintain a game and a half lead still in this division. Shout out to the Fathers. The Friars. Is that Fathers? Padre? Yeah, but I mean, their nickname is the Friars. Or the Pods. San Diego Fathers. How about one local, I'm only going to say media person.

There's a local social media person who tweeted, Great job by Hunter Brown tonight. Who did that? You want to say what other you don't want to? You could probably guess. Oh, I'm sure. Sure. If that's who I think it is, he's very positive about everything Astros. I get it was two earned runs. Sure. Doesn't hurt the air already great. He still gave up six runs.

Yeah, I watched it last time when I got home, and I didn't think it was, I thought he looked like he wasn't anything close to what he was in Detroit, but that way, right? Yeah. Well, the good news is Framberg goes tonight, and he's been awesome lately, right? As long as he doesn't out his defense. If he has a bad outing tonight, I'm hitting the panic, button. No, you're not. You got a game and a half lead. There have been five million reasons to hit the panic button, yet the Astros still are in first place in the division. All right, we got to get to that today. We have Brian Bogosivik at 11 o'clock. We got, oh, shut your bum ass up, Cajun style with Gordia, 1130 today. I'm excited about that. I know you got something on your mind. You have to. And Craig Wray, the Voice

of the Longhorn is going to join us at 1 o'clock today. We'll give us his thoughts on the UT versus the Ohio State University game, which will be Saturday right here on Sports Talk 790. and Nick Casario spoke today. I got news for y'all. If you are a Joe Mixon fan, it might be longer than four weeks before you see the young man play. Just a little gut feeling on that one. 1013. It is the Matt Thomas show.

AOs when we come back, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. It is the Matt Thomas show. No Ross today. Back tomorrow. Gordy's going to hang out with us for a couple hours as you listen to Sports Talk 790. I'm sorry, Houston. We have to do it.

Not what I want to do, not what I believe in. Hey. Oh, I got a little premature there. It's going to have to happen sometimes when you lose the Rockies. You come on this show and you say these simple words. Hey, oh, let's go. Hey, oh, let's go. Astros, over.

Reaction, right here. What's that at 90? All right, Gordy, you're familiar with this. The Astros have a team website. And 12 hours ago, they put the final score of Rocky 6. Astros won. 160 likes. 76 retweets.

191 responses. Who's liking that? You shouldn't like that. Probably Mariner fan. Ranger fan. If there's such thing as Rocky fan. So let's see what the people are thinking at 953 last night. Muse Astros says, can't believe how bad we are against the worst teams, man.

Yeah, their record against like the A's and the Rocky. I mean, didn't the Rockies beat the Astros 2 out of 3 in Denver or something like that? Or am I making that up? Astros 1, 2 out of 3rd. Okay, thank God. All right. Scrolling down, scrolling down, scrolling down, scrolling down. At Red Raider Man 1 says losing to the Rockies is so unbrand.

Why is it on brand? Not brand. They're in first place. At Mercy Fox 61, Dan, with a sad crying emoji. Let's see here. At Texas Astro, what the hell again with the Astro is struggling to produce runs? Our division is just so frustrating. At folding Aces 39.

One run, bro? Really? Hell, they're going to keep walking Yordon because Walker can't get on base unless he's hit by a pitch. He's a right-handed version of Milton. Damn, that's tough. At Daddy 4K, y'all are so ass. at Live S-E-S just

This is F-U He actually puts the word in there I saw one Where it was they were attacking him Because they did the pre-game Meme of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey And it was like your Astros fans And Yoron

He's back And yeah one was like Hey instead of doing Taylor Swift memes How much you focus on winning a baseball game At Jay Weizner 68 Way to help the Rockies Climb to just 56 games under 500. Ooh, that's rough.

At David Morant 48, man, this Rockies pitching staff is awesome. Too bad the rest of MLB doesn't realize it. Yikes. Rude. Let's see. Hust at Yo, it's Kenneth. Just a running joke

at this point. Any 6 and higher ERA pitcher looks like a Ysai young winner against us. Let's see. This guy, David Moran. He's on here all every day. Congrats to the Rockies. They're now a nifty 38 and 94. At Mustard 33D.

We always do this to the bum teams. This guy said they played Taylor Swift songs throughout the game. All the scoreboard graphics were about Hello Kitty. Fans started doing the wave in the first inning. Bad omens all around today. Well, I don't disagree about... They were doing the wave in the first inning. They were not doing the wave in the first inning.

That's ridiculous. People aren't even in their seats in the first inning. At Radar 2. 799 0.0 killer instinct by the Astros. At Franken Bones says never play a home game again. Oh, how about Keegan Crawford? Can't even win on my birthday, SMH. Jed said this is because Bagwell was in the booth. Was it? Oh, he, oh, that's...

He did the TV. All right, I'll go one more here. The goat Altube is 0 for 5. Oh, his OPS has dropped considerably. at Stacey H.C. 1208. I expected this playing a bad team in home. And that is Astros overaction. I can't read anymore.

Man, talking about Jeff. And I don't really know Jeff. I mean, I covered him, but I don't really particularly know him. We have no relationship whatsoever. I see him, hello, whatever the case would be. But he is, in my mind, the second grade is Astro of them all. But, man, I have never seen a guy so beloved as a player get so. crushed as a non-player.

I think he's fine. Do you think Cal Ripkin Jr. gets roasted by Oreo fans the way Jeff Bagwell gets roasted by the Astro fans? No. And it's weird because when he, I think this all has to do with the involvement with the front office. That is exactly right. A couple years ago when he was filling on games, nobody said anything.

Yeah. In fact, it was over-positive. People were like, oh, I like Bagwell's takes in the booth. And look, he's not a trained broadcaster. So, yeah. Did he stop? When he does radio, does he step on calls? Sure, but it's him with his pure excitement and all that. But, you know, I saw people on TV, they're like, oh, TV, he's monotone. And he's this, he's, that's like, dude, he's not a trained broadcaster.

He's there filling in. And he's got some great insight. His stories are great. I love his anecdotal stuff. I really do. Is he a little homerific? Sure, but it's the home broadcast. Right.

You should want that. You know, what's somebody, I want you to tell me how it is, neutral. No, it's the home broadcast. At Kenny Peacock. Astros are not consistent and they are not good. Can they find it maybe, but I'm not counting on a deep run. Pitching is not consistent. Batting overall stinks.

They are walking Yardin after four months on seeing Major League pitching to get to our trash. I will tell you, that was a radar alarms going off in my head, though, when Yordon got walked twice. First time, it was like an intentional while. It was four straight balls. Christian Walker, bro, if you're going to bat behind Yordon the rest of the year, you're going to have to pick your game up. But who else is going to back behind him, honestly? I don't know. I'm just saying like...

Do you move Kraya down there? One time Walker strikes out, another time he flies out, like, I got to have, like, this is what Joe Spott has got to deal with. If they are scared of Yorda, having Yorda back is great. But if they're scared to pitch to him and they're just going to walk him, got to have somebody that can help deliver behind him. If Walker's going to have O for 4, 0 for 5 nights, it's going to do a whole lot of nothing. Okay. Well, then that's the case then. Then the only realistic answer to me would be their alt-te.

Tuve or Correa. But Altuve had an O for five night last night. You know what I mean? No, I mean, but that's what you've got. I mean, I wouldn't put Yarnier Diaz behind him. I don't think Jesus is the answer. He's at least, he's at least hitting lately a little bit more than Walker. I mean, Walker had those home run that those three games were the home run.

But I don't, like on paper, I was giddy when I saw that line. I went Pena, Correa, Altuva, Yordon Walker. I'm like, that's a damn one to five. For sure. Well, I was going to go 60. If you really want to go to it. it. And then if Jake Myers comes back and he performs like he did before he got hurt, that's 70 potentially. It's just 3, 4, 5.0 for the last night.

All right. So that's enough about the Astros, at least for the short term. Brian Bogosovic's going to join us coming up in a half an hour from now. And we have shut your bum ass up at 1130 today. We got that all in the next couple of hours. Gordi's going to hang with us to noon as well. But when we return, Nick is there I met with the media today. We did not carry it live here on 790. Should we have carried it live? No, because we could probably sum up what he said. In about 7 to 10 words?

The only thing I cared about is Joe Mixon, and I will paraphrase what Casario said about Joe Mixon because it's a lot of words out. Is it in generics? It was in generics. When building a roster. He said building like 50 times. It's about the big picture.

You really want to pull back. You want to take a step back. It's like, oh my God. Just answer the freaking question, sir. Well, I do want to get to a bigger thought about this. and the philosophy the Texans have about injuries, which are frankly, a lot of teams in sports now have. 1027, if you want to join us, 713212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. All right, it is 1031 on Sports Talk 790. Nick Hissario met with the media today, and I watched it online and... You can fall asleep? Well, I need to be respectful. But I told you guys a long time ago that I wasn't going to play Casario Sondbytes in the show, so I'm not going to do that. But it's a really, really, really tough watch and listen, he just doesn't say anything.

He just, I mean, it's, I don't want to say disrespectful. It's just his philosophy. They keep things super tight-lipped over there on Kirby. And, you know, their philosophy is we are protecting the player, we're protecting the building. He says building like 50 times. The building says this. I want these guys in a building. Our building is this.

Your owner thinks your building's crap. So, like literally the people in it, but the building itself. So he has been saying the Texans did that, you know, they had their cut down list yesterday as required by the NFL. And they have different types of list. They have players been waived. They have released players. And they have reserved physically unable to playlists. They have commissioner exemplist where Jimmy Ward is.

And then they have a list where they call reserve slash non-football injury list. Elijah Huzzle, Hussie is on there. You know who that is? Not familiar. He's a rookie from North Carolina. He's a cornerback. Elijah Huzzi, H-U-Z-I-E, Huzzy, Huzzy Z, Huzzy, whatever. We don't care about him.

The other player that's on that list that will miss a minimum of four weeks is Joe Mixon. Non-reserve, non-futball injury reserve list. So he meets with the media today, and he's like, and I'm going to paraphrase here, because I'm not going to give the guy shine because the comments are so terrible. He's like, well, we'll wait and see when the four weeks over with whether or not he'll come back. He was asked if there would be a setback or not. He would not give the answer to it. And there was some back and forth, was a couple of reporters there that basically said,

we're not going to tell you things because it's in our best interest. It's in our players' best interest to tell us. to tell us or to tell you what's going on. Because if all of a sudden they say, if Joe Mixon's coming back in eight weeks and he doesn't come back for 12 weeks, then the initial answer was, well, what went wrong? Well, but that's, then it's something,

then it's super serious then. I believe when you don't say anything, it makes it worse. It makes it worse. Not every time, but most times. Because think about this, think about it from their perspective. if they say that they say nothing and Joe Mixing is back and ready to go in five weeks,

then it's okay, well, you put him on the list to miss the first four games of the year, and he's back for week number five against Baltimore or maybe after the buy, whatever. But I do believe when you don't say anything, it leads to you, Chris Gordy, me, frankly just guessing. Well, in the NFL of all places, aren't injuries pretty, like a collarbone is this, a knee injury is this. Like we kind of know.

Baseball's the only one with like a pitcher, what it's an elbow or an arm. I get it. Sometimes you can't put an exact timeline on it. Once you diagnose, okay, this is this and we have surgery, then you know the timeline. Tommy John, we know, is at least 12 to 16 months.

Yeah, 12 to 15 whatever months. Right. But like, with an ankle, okay, is the ankle broken? No. They haven't said broken, right? Okay, so it's an ankle. But, like, to me...

But he won't even express when it happened, how it happened. None of that. I mean, was he on a dance floor? Was he pulling a babe Ruth and chasing, what, women naked around a lobby of a hotel and tripped? Like, that's the thing. Like, a lot of these stories always come out, and I'm joking on that, but, like, yeah,

like, what's so heinous that you can't tell us how he heard his ankle? He was doing workouts at home and, you know, like, twist the ankle. Like, I don't know. to me it's Casario doing the Patriot way. Yeah. And he's like, I don't owe it to you. The league knows what's going on for what they need to know.

The people that are important in our offices know. The training staff knows. The doctors know. And I know. And that's as far as it's going to go. Well, Domingo, too. He's gone overboard with the overprotection and the players and stuff. Like, you don't care about him as a person.

So why should I tell you about his injury? okay, dude, it's a football team. Like, come on. I'm going to say this, and I don't mean to be callous. We really don't care, but they're right. We don't care about you beyond being a football player. I mean, we care about you as a human being.

But I'm not going to think about the next 30 years. God, I hope Matt Schaub's doing okay today. Right. You know what I mean? Once you're done, you're done. Well, especially in the fantasy football generation, too. I mean, you are your worth on that fantasy roster in the minute you're hurt. Bye.

Drop you. Yeah, I love you. So, one of the all times. greats will honor your jersey and put you in the walk of fame or whatever but no we're not going to have emotional attachments to players because they don't have emotional attachments to us right do you think the day i retire from the rockets jabrari smith's like man you and i got to keep in touch man we got i'm going to miss you so much no he's like we'll get somebody else in here well they're highly compensated for it too so but yeah i i i don't i don't get it i just because again if it's if he hurt the

injured, we kind of know it happened somewhere in the springtime, right? Like it was because he wasn't going through the OTA stuff and all that. Has it wasn't, didn't put a uniform on, wasn't walking around, wasn't high-fiving people, wasn't sprinting on the backfields, none of that. But even if

he, say, broke the ankle in April and had surgery, you have a timetable of no knowing when that ankle's going to be fine again. You know, there are some people that have said to me, and now they're coming after me in particular, they're just talking about the general media.

And have said, when he comes back, he comes back, why do you care where he's going to be out? And I don't think it's that simplistic because there are millions of people, forgetting about the betters, forgetting about the fantasy football aspect. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the city of Houston and in southeast Texas that love the Houston Texans. and I would say the same thing during the whole Kyle Tucker stuff at last year forget about the intelligence you're giving other

teams, forgetting about the betting aspect the fantasy. There are people that don't do any of the things I just said that just love your team and they just want to know about one of their favorite players. Right. And so

if you don't have fans, you don't have a team. I think that's where you hurt them. I don't care of Vegas consent. inside information. I don't care if your fancy football team is impacted by one way or the other or how you're going to draft. There are fans that have Texans logos on the back of their trucks that wear gear that when I go to various things in my life, whether it's at a restaurant or I'm at the high school

or at the volleyball match. They're like, have you heard anything about Joe Mixon? They're not asking because they're trying to formulate their seventh round draft pick in their fancy draft. They're asking because they love the Texans. And frankly, I thought today, Casario was being his normal, up at his self by saying, we're not going to tell you. And when we are ready to tell you, we'll tell you.

I think it's a disservice. Yeah. I just think it is. You go, you say, yeah, look, he had the high ankle sprain last season, you know, and then had a little setback in spring, you know, something that we're dealing with and we're going to have to operate without them for a while. I mean, you can say that. But like the whole shutdown, be a robot thing.

I like our buddy Aaron Wilson is really good. Connie, you can read between the lines of what Aaron reports. Here's what he says. When asked about if Mixon initial play the season, Cassario replied, we'll see we'll evaluate it after four weeks. Mixing got hurt last season, dealing with the high ankle sprain from the hip drop tackle against the bears. His injury recovery progressed from being in a walking boot in the spring

to wearing a lace-up brace, to having increased mobility over the summer to now still being out indefinitely while rehabbing and navigating a somewhat complicated medical issue. So Aaron's telling you right there. Somewhat complicated medical issue. It's more than just the ankle, it would appear. So instead of getting on in front of it, now if he wanted to say, here's what happened, I can't put a timetable on it.

I can live with that. but to say nothing and because he's quote unquote protecting the team and protecting the player what are you protecting yourself from he says mixon visited a podiatrist before training camp that specializes an electromagnetic therapy to break up scar tissue there have been issues with the aftercare of the injury throughout the offseason and it has been slow to recover so

I mean we might be dealing with an issue here where maybe he's pissed that maybe the training staff misdiagnosed it? You know what? Maybe that's the legal. Here's a thing. There could be some legalities to it. There could be some Joe Mixon says, don't say a damn thing about this. You remember, there are many sides of this.

Yeah. All the Texans are saying, don't say a thing about this, you might make us libel for something that our training staff did wrong. But it could also be Joe Mixon and his agent saying, shut up. Sure. Don't say a word. My man. Like, for instance, Jonathan, you'll hate to hear this, but I had a friend of mine.

who was kidnapped by this really old, ugly woman, and he got stuck in a bed, and she broke his ankle. It's awful. It was terrible. And maybe that happened to him. Maybe he got kidnapped. Someone called misery. Yeah.

And broke his ankle too, yeah? Yeah. He was trying to get out of the bed, and she was like, no, no, no, no, no, no. So she basically got a book, put it between the ankles, and then use a sludge hammer against it. It was awful. No, no, no, no, I know this movie. I know this one.

No, no, no, no, no. I know this. Oh, my God. I've seen this scene before. I'm going to be so mad at myself. I don't know the name. Yeah. It's certainly it's a misery that you don't know the name of the movie.

Oh, yeah, I'm going to look this up. We're literally telling you what it is. Is this called misery? I've seen this movie. I know I have. God, you are an SFA guy. Jesus. Oh, my gosh.

By the way, today is, believe it or not, all things about SFA. Oh, tomorrow. Oh, my God. No, tomorrow we don't get it. The promise day. Astros a day, so the same. And Friday, we're doing, believe we're not, on Lee Corso, so it's doing it that way. All right, 1043.

So let me ask you this, Houston, when these teams, and I'm talking about the Astros, I'm talking certainly about the Houston Texans say, you know what? We'll tell you when you tell you, and we want to tell you. Do you get offended by that? Are you indifferent to it, or are you like, yeah, it'd be nice if they told us. But I just think hush, and we'll tell you when the moment is right, for a team that is that they are a business, correct?

They do ask you to pay money to go watch them play in person, correct? They do ask, they do make you pay money for them to wear shirts because of your fandom. I just think it's I think it's arrogant, I think it's cocky, and that's why I've never,

Casario to me just, he's so New England. And his team doesn't even have a, have anything close to New England. No championships, no Super Bowl appearances. He's done a good job, though. He's done a good job. I'd like for him to do a great job. He's got to be great, and the offensive line is not going to be great this year, and Joe Mixon is... They've got the right coach.

They've got franchise players. It's about taking that next step. And by the way, you know that D'emico's got zero issues with the way Kassaros handling it's because it's a player. Players like to be protected. 1044 on Sports Talk, 790, 7-7-1, 212-7-90. Brian Bogusivik to talk some Astros with us coming up in 15 minutes. All right, so the reality is this.

And look, I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on this because, again, the season's still on a week away. And we know that Joe Mixing is going to be out for four weeks. But I do believe it's an issue that there is such lack of transparency on this. And I think it goes to a bigger point. Why did these – why did sports teams do this? Let me, you and I were not covering the Houston owners in 1978. I wasn't even covering the elders in 1988. I was still a kid.

Did the influx of podcast, message boards, Twitter, more people caring about sports, is that the reason why we've got these teams that are just saying, we're not going to tell you anything? I mean, some of it's gamesmanship. like week of a game, like say Joe Mixon was on the active roster, but he was having this ankle issue and he was less as questionable

for week one. I get it. It's gamesmanship. You want that opposing team and have to prepare for both Joe Nixon, Nick Job, and any running back. I get it from that perspective. But when the guy's hurt and not coming back anytime soon, I don't understand why being coy about the injury. Like, what's the advantage there? Other than to go, I don't have to tell you. Like, okay, great.

Like, what's the benefit here? What are you benefiting from not getting into? If it's a private company and you are in a situation where you've got, you know, intelligence that's going to ultimately make your company either succeed or fail based off of sales numbers or what, I can kind of get it. But there are people within this audience, there are people that are not listening to this show that would love to know what their team's going to be like the first month of the year or whether or not the Texans are going to be in a serious trouble spot running the football this year

if Joe Mixon's not able to go. Again, he could show up in week five ready to play against the Baltimore Ravens, and this could be all for nothing. But if that is the case, then, by you saying nothing, all you're doing is creating perhaps artificial, what would be the term I want to use? people are nervous artificial They're

I forget it Yeah I get what you're saying You get what I'm saying There are people that are worried That may not need to be worried If it's like hey the ankle's not feeling great We're trying to get it better This is four weeks away from the game

It's going to be fine week five We should be ready to go Well it's clear something serious Again Aaron Wilson saying The injury progressed He was in a walking boot in the spring He was wearing a lace up brace In the summer

and then they even came out and said he's having increased mobility. So you were like, oh, he's getting close to coming back. Then he calls it a somewhat complicated medical issue saying you visited a podiatrist that does electromagnetic therapy to break up scar tissue. And there have been issues with the aftercare of the injury throughout the offseason and has been slow to recover and left him sidelined up until now. The interesting point, Matt, is the non-football injury list for people who don't know. The non-football injury list, the NFI, is an NFL roster designation for players injured or sick

from conditions unrelated to NFL activities. So he did something that didn't involve him playing and or practicing? The non-N-FL activities include college injuries, personal accidents, and long-term illnesses. So, and again, he says, Casario did not elaborate on why he was classified that way. By definition, the designation means that the NFL regards injury is something not sustainable in a team-involved activity. And Casario said, quote, not my call, it's the league's call. Some of it is logistics and vernacular.

So again, it's something he did not playing football. Okay, so let's go through a variety of things. He was on the dance floor and got hurt. He was on a cruise ship and somebody dropped a banana peel. He has gambling debts and the mafia came over and broke his ankles. It could have been that. It could have been that. I mean, it's certainly within a problem of possibility.

He was in a movie theater with a really sticky floor and his ankle just got stuck. Yeah, and he's suing the movie company right now. See, that's what you do. You try to make something silly out of it. But if it is ridiculous, you don't want to admit it, right? Like some of these baseball players that punch a wall, didn't one of them throw like an Xbox controller and like hit his foot, like broke his foot?

What's the dumbest injury you've ever had in your life? For me? Yeah. Oh, in high school. We were driving around, we got out of school earlier. We were driving around the girls' school. Mm-hmm. And I think we had like some kind of, it was like a puppet or something we had.

We were sticking out the window and it fell. So my buddy circled around the block. It was like, hey, let's go pick it up. So as he pulled around, he didn't stop the car. I just reached out to go grab it. And I fell out of the car, fell on my hand, broke my wrist. That's a good one. That was nice.

I wasn't expecting that. Pretty stupid. That was outstanding. Wow, that's a story, though. Another one I want a toy gun at like one of those fares And they had the stupid Orange protective thing on the end And let people know it's not a real gun

And I was like, I want to get that off Because it doesn't look real And I had a pocket knife I had one And I was pushing it into the orange thing And tried to get it off It slipped, sliced my filleted the top of my Index finger I think I want to know who Gordy was in college

Stupid interest This is Bayou-Caysan guy right here You got some stories on him on him on Yeah, I mean, nothing like getting bit by an alligator or anything. What's your worst injury? Well, I know, because your testicles got really large one year. We know about that already. I told my ACO before I got here.

Doing what? Playing volleyball at the wreck. It's people who am I play volleyball, man. That's why you got to bring the daughter over there. My worst injury was I was fighting with someone about when a food item was going to be done, so I'd pulled that out of the oven and didn't use a mitt and burn my hand pretty good. I got to find that Jonathan Audio. That needs to go on the best of.

I think so. Do we even do best of us anymore? We just play Uncle Greg, and then we play Uncle Best of Jonathan, too. All right, Brian Bogus' going to join us to start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. We got shut your bum ass up coming up in a half an hour

or, yeah, half an hour from now. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1104, Sports Talk, 790. We start hour number two with our regular Wednesday guests. He is the analyst on the space. City Home Network. We say hello to Brian Bogus. Sevik. Bogey, look, the worst teams in sports are always going to be the best teams occasionally, especially

in baseball, because that's what they do. They usually win 50 to 60 games. With that being said, it felt especially painful because of you had your ace on the mound and you had your power hitter back. The air of the balloon was pretty quick at Dyken Park last night. Yeah, you know, we said on the pregame show

with as much adversity as the team had had to fight through and all the the stuff that they had to overcome. It finally felt like things were lining up in their favor. There's a lot of stuff going for them coming in, whether it be the offense getting it going in Baltimore, Yordaunt's back, hunters on the mound. You know, you've got the worst team in baseball coming into play. And it just feels like a missed opportunity, right? Like, you know, you see it all the time in individual games. You miss opportunities to score runs and it comes back to bite you.

This is, you know, the scheduling, a course. equivalent of second and third nobody out and they didn't take advantage of it. So the big question mark has been of us last night, a couple of walks for Yorda, which has always been pretty good at doing that, is the protection behind him. I know many years ago we were growing up, we talked about lineup construction a lot. It feels like we don't talk about it nearly as much here in 2025, generally speaking. But let me ask you, how do you protect him from getting on base a couple of times because other teams are like we're not going to pitch to him.

Well, you've got to have run producers behind him, right? If you're pitching around somebody that inevitably means there's going to be opportunities with runners on base behind him. And, you know, Christian Walker had those opportunities yesterday, didn't work out. You know, if you look at the body of work for Christian Walker over the last two months, basically, his numbers are very similar to what they were last couple years in Arizona. The guy we thought we were getting, you know, he's, he, He drove in a bunch of runs on the road trip.

Did it happen yesterday? No, but, you know, as of right now, he's the guy. He's the guy who, you know, before Yordon came back was your best option as a run producer. So now you stick him behind Yordon and hope that a couple chances he can cash in on. And then all of a sudden you got to pitch to Yordon. Yeah, that's what I was going to say, Brian. I mean, you know, Walker was so encouraging in that Baltimore series. He was, you know, hitting home runs. And it was like, all right, maybe he's getting going here.

And then, you know, an O for three night last night. I just, you know, again, maybe it was just you went up against a pitcher that's feeling himself right now. It's so funny. I was looking at Tanner Gordon. What do you give up, like 10 runs two weeks ago to Arizona? And then he goes one run against the Dodgers, one run against the Astros. So sometimes you just run into a guy who's just pitching well. But I think that's the biggest thing.

The Matt's point is, okay, Yoron's back, great. But yeah, if teams are going to walk him, you need somebody to driving those runs. But Christian Walker has just been so inconsistent all year. I'm just, I'm worried about him being the guy behind Yordaum. Maybe, but I certainly have to give it more than one game to really dissect it. I mean, if you look at the opportunities yesterday, he had a ball, I forget which inning it was, maybe the fifth or sixth inning. He lined out to left field to end the inning with runners on base.

The ball had an expected batting average over 900. It was just a good play right out of guy. So, you know, you can't just say you went over. It's not working when the guy, you know, hit a line drive that could have easily gotten down. His first step at that, the inning that, you know, the end of the first inning, it was a good pitch to hit. He barreled it, just got under it, under it, and flew out to center field.

You know, as long as it's not looking overmatched, as long as it's not, hey, they are targeting you and attacking you one specific way because they have found a weakness that they know they can go to time and time again. If he's, you know, in a good spot swing-wise, if he's getting good pitches to hit, let him go out there for more than a couple of games. really see because, you know, he's produced runs better than most guys on the team. I mean, I think there's, you know, RBIs with two outs. He's at the top of the American League.

He's got, you know, a high percentage of RBIs to games over the last two months or so. So he's been getting it done, but certainly didn't yesterday. Starting pitching, it's a weird time right now. Look, we know Javier's working his way back in the form. Lance is still trying to work his way back into form. Evergetty, very encouraged from his last outing, you know, after a dismal outing before it. So, okay, starting to maybe these guys running in a form, but if this team's going to do anything in the postseason, Brian, it starts with Hunter Brown and starts with Fromper Valdez. And Hunter Brown last night, an uncharacteristic weird night where, yeah, he only gives up two earned, but you still give up six runs and you lose six to one.

I look at tonight with Fromber, and this is a big start for him. I'm sorry. I mean, I get it's Colorado, but a 733 R.A this one. month, Framber's been bad. The last four starts. Like, I've got to see good vintage Frumber here to feel good about myself. And if he's not, man, I'm starting to hit the panic button because I'm going, my two automatics, Fromber

and Hunter Brown, if they can't get it done, like, you really start to get a little bit worried. No, absolutely. I mean, this team's playoff hopes hinge around kind of bookending a game, right? It's starting pitching and it's back of the bullpen. And it starts with the two big guys at the top of the

rotation. You had the two big guys at the of the bullpen, you're already down one of them. So that are those four guys that are out of the mix now with hitter being down. So it becomes even more important to be getting quality start after quality start from Hunter and Frumber. And for Frumber, we got to see the stuff look like it's supposed to. And there's going to be times when you get hit a little bit, especially a guy who is a big ground ball pitcher. Balls are going to fine holes, all that stuff. But his curve ball, two of his last three starts, has not looked right.

He hasn't been getting ground balls at the same rate that he typically does. There are some mechanical things that are affecting the stuff. And if he doesn't have that high-end stuff and they don't have, you know, a big two at the top of that starting rotation, it's going to be really difficult to go out there and try to run through a couple series in the playoffs. And, you know, you'll be able to tell. You'll be able to tell today because when his curve ball is working, it's a really high swing and miss pitch. and the Rockies swing and miss more than anybody in baseball. So if he's not able to rack up whiffs with that curveball today, it's still not right.

Do you think, Brian, that is something he works on on the days he's throwing when he's not in the rotation and not pitching? Or is it something that he's got to make a self-assessment on when he's in the bullpen getting ready for the start that night? No, that is a definitely work on during the week. I mean, when his sinker and his curveball, both with the amount of movement that he has on those pitches, release point is key, right? You've got to know where you're going to let that pitch go to know where it's going to land based on how much movement it's got on any given day. And your mechanics have to be really synced up and right for you to be able to adjust that based on what you've got that day. So, you know, you go out there, you try to be really consistent with your mechanics and the throwing program when you get off the mound in between starts and, you know, know where you can start that pitch to land it where you want.

And then when you go out there during the game, you know, there are some guys starting pitchers who, if you have a really deep repertoire, you're a five, six pitch guy. If you don't have a pitch working, you can just scrap it and go with something else. A hunter does that all the time. We've seen Lance McCullors do it at times.

But Frumber, essentially a two-pitch guy, we'll see him go to more change-ups or incorporate a slider every once in a while, but he's got to find ways to find the thinker and find the curveball. He's done it at times this year. When you see him subtracting velocity from his fastball, that's when he's really trying to find that shape to kind of set everything in motion. He's got to find a way to find it early today. The narrative after last night's loss,

and obviously things can change, especially if the Astros win the next two games of the series, as the Astros really play well against the upper echelon teams, the first place teams, the Waldcard teams, but man, they can struggle mightily with the second tier squad. Last time at home, Baltimore, that was a miserable series. the game last night. Are we talking coincidence? I don't believe, Brian, that the Astros Clubhouse shuts the door at 615 before 710 first pitch and says, boys, we got this handled. So if that's

not the case, which I believe it isn't the case, then what is it? Why does this team have its issues against teams that are significantly under 500 or out of the pennant race? It's got to be coincidence because there's nothing else that makes sense. I mean, you've got too many guys who have done it at a high level for so long to think that they're just, you know, can be, can go out there and be outclassed by some of those bottom of the division teams on such a consistent basis. And also, you know, maybe if you're talking middle of June, July, can you overlook somebody maybe not be as locked in or let the wear down of the season get you a little bit? Sure.

But when you're talking about 30 games left and a one game lead in the division and a team breathing down your neck, the focus. should be there to not overlook a team like the Rockies or a team like Baltimore. So, you know, it's got to just be coincidence because we see what the best version is. We see them go out there and go toe to toe with the Phillies and with the Dodgers. And we see what the good can be. So why we don't see that against the lesser teams, I think it's just kind of a random happenstance of the up and downs of the season. And it's just lined up to where they haven't been playing well. Last question. We get Yordon back. Maybe Myers, hope for the next.

a handful of days after rehabilitation starts in Sugar Land. Do you suggest any seismic shift in the everyday starting lineup, especially if it goes seven deep, or do you think the way it's kind of put together right now, it's okay? No, I'm fine with the way it's put together now. Obviously, everything is fluid, and if you start getting, you know, eight, ten games in and things aren't working out, maybe you shuffle it around a little bit.

I think the biggest thing that we're going to see in terms of kind of, fluidity in the lineup or the construction during any given day is how do you incorporate El Tuve at DH left field second base with now Yordon into the mix who's going to get the bigger share of DH? How are you going to keep each of them fresh from being out in left field? That's going to be interesting to watch. I mean, they're both going to be in there every day. So just how Joe gets it done and seeing how he thinks he can maximize, you know, the team defensively with those guys. But no, I think you're getting. getting to the point to where we're going to see a pretty consistent group of six to seven guys every day,

and then just a couple of guys sprinkled in in matchup situations. Great stuff. As always, Boogie. We'll look forward to seeing you tonight on Space City. Appreciate the time, and we'll visit again next Wednesday. Sure. See you, guys. You got it, Brian Bogus epic with us here on Sports Talks Saturday.

We have shut your bum ass up coming up in 15 minutes from now. Ain't anybody got time for that as well. The news at noon. We've got Craig Way, the voice of the Longhorns, with us at 1 o'clock today to get all things, get you ready for Texas versus Ohio State. And we believe it or not today, all things about Stephen F. Austin State University. God's school.

1115 on Sports Talk 790. 1120 on Sports Talk 790. You're kind of nervous about your first ever shut your bum ass up? You cannot go after every SEC school, not in LSU. You know that. I got a good one, though. I think most people would agree with. All right.

I did put up a poll question last night as the Astros were losing to the. hated Colorado Rockies. I said, what do we go with today for the main topic? Rockies box score preview, 53-man Texans breakdown in Swift Kelsey Wedding Plans. Rockies' box score review was 41%. 53-man Texans breakdown 30% and the Swift Kelsey Wedding plans at 29%. You know, the reality is the Rockies are going to win 45 games this year. And the Astros are going to give them at least two of them.

But I told the audience this yesterday. It feels like to me every year the Astros, around this time of year, have a sucky set of games coming up against subpar opponents, and they let them win. I remember a couple of years ago. It might have been even last year. It was the A's and the Royals where I think we're in a back-to-back series, and the Astros, I think, lost all but one of the games, I think, in the mix. Yeah, they always have a stretch, but there's been multiple stretches post-all-Star break.

I mean, you came right out of the break and lost two out of three in Seattle. Then you come home and lose four straight to the A's. And then that was even bookended with the first loss of that national series. So it was what, like five in a row. Then you had the getting swept up in Boston. That was ugly. Then you go and get swept up in Detroit after losing two out of three at home to Baltimore. So it's just there's been too many of these stress.

Like to your point, yes. every year around this time of year the Astros have a stretch where they go oh that wasn't great but then they get back on track this team post all-star break has not gotten back on track the 500 team

yeah yeah because they do have some series wins but they also have some disappointing performances too I mean the Baltimore series at home was I mean you almost got perfect game in the game yeah and then you go up there and you kick ass yeah it's why we follow them

because there's a certain segment of the population that's ready for this team to go, all right, the final streak ends. And then there's a large segment of the population. Hopefully that's most of you that are saying, you know what, they'll shake out of this. And they are getting some guys back. But what has come back so far? Of all the players that have been back so far, Javier, McCullors,

Yoron is only one game since that's not even fair. But who's come back that was picked up? right where you left off. Pena? Pena has been the guy. Although yesterday, two airs on one play. That was a tough watch. He's really good defensively, though. It's just an off night.

Yeah. I'm trying to think anybody else that's meant... I mean, we've got to give Correa credit for... As soon as he put that Astros uniform on, he's been awesome. Awesome. He has exceeded my expectation so far. It's almost like those hitting coaches vibe with him. You mean the ones are going to probably be fired

because everybody wants him firing after every game. He couldn't hit in Minnesota. I don't know. He got back here and he hits again. Yeah. Another good last night. All right. 713, 212.790 if you want to jump in. 7132-1-2-5-7-9.

Remember, coming up in about five or six minutes, we're going to ask you to call in and tell some people to shut their bum-asses up. What else we got going on? We mentioned the Joe Mixing situation. If today was a gut-feeling Tuesday, I probably would say we're not going to see Joe Mixing this year. Oh, I think we'll see him. But your guess is literally as good as mine as right now.

Yeah. The tough part is having these fantasy drafts. What do you do? Nick Chubbs going higher and higher every now. Is that why Casario is being so tight-left he wants to protect the image for his players so people don't over or under-draft him? Is that what it is?

He's like, look, guys, I have a draft next week. And I know Mixon's coming back week five, but I'm not going to say that. If any of you are in a Casario League, and he picks Joe Mixon like in the sixth round, that would be encouraging, yes? Maybe, yeah. I wish we had Rodo on today.

Is there a single Texans running back that will be selected? Because think about this, even if Nick Chubb gets, Nick Chubb presumably will be the starter for the first four weeks, I don't think he's going to get 20 carries per game. Most people do. They think Nick Chub is going to be, he's going to get back to Nick Chub of three years ago and be awesome. I have way too much evidence that's not going to happen.

What about all the people at training camp who are 12? tweeting out, Nick Chubb looks in great shape. Because they're not legitimate media. I mean, I saw dozens of tweets. No, the Texans credential, more non-media people than any other team in Houston sports history. I think there's a, I think Chubb can be serviced. I think he can be week one in L.A., 18 carries, 89 yards, and a touchdown. If he gives you 89 yards per week, that is a super big win for this team.

You won't give that to you every week, but I think you'd be fine. But, I mean, again, for fantasy purposes, not that makes anything difference because ultimately you're worried about, I think, the Texans winning. Is anybody going to rush for 100 yards this year for the Texans? The only way I see it happening is if somebody gets a huge 65-yard touchdown run as part of the day. Because I don't think, I really do believe Damien Pierce is going to get every opportunity to be a legitimate number two backup running back, especially while Joe Mixing is gone. I think it's going to be, I would not be surprised if the running back handoff distribution

would be about 60, 40 maybe, 70, 30, with Woody Mark's getting a little bit of run here? Yeah, that's the thing. How much does the rookie, do you play the rookie? Again, rookie struggle and past protection and things like that. So, you know, they'll probably want to ease him into the offense when the season starts, but I don't know, it feels like at times Damien Pierce has been on the outs. Well, the biggest thing is, is that he, the first year Damian Pierce was wonderful. The last two have been either not on the field at all or very low production or he fumbles the football. Yeah. And I don't think there's anything that's more aggravating to any offensive coach than a running back that can't hold on with the football. I think he, I think he, I think he's

going to play a ton. I think it's going to be Nick Chubb. I think they're going to ride Chubb. You think, but this way, do you think he's going to carry the ball 20 times a game? I do not believe that under any circumstance. I think the body will not allow him to do that. Who does carry 20 times a game other than Sycuan Barclay? I mean, almost every team in the league is kind of dual backs these days. Yeah. All right, 1127. You ready? Oh, yeah. Let's go. Okay, I'm going first.

Jonathan, you're going second, and I'm going to go last. Because I think I'm, I'm trying to be a better person, Gordy. I'm trying to be less... I'm not mean. I'm trying to be less vindictive. I'm trying to be less petty. So I'm going to let you guys go first. Ain't nobody getting time?

Ain't nobody getting time for day. Ain't nobody getting time for day. Hey nobody getting time for me. I'm going to get time for me. 1133, Sports Talks. Seminari, this half hour is the most cathartic half hour you will have in Houston Radio. This is where you get a chance to tell somebody how you feel and how angry you are about something that was said or done to you. And you tell them to shut their bum asses up.

Shut your bum ass up, man. Or let's say somebody at the office is always trying to tease you about where you went to school because of their open enrollment policy. He could say, hey, Matt, ain't nobody got time for that? Hey nobody got time for that? We heard. SFA is the Harvard of the Piney Woods. Oh, you're so messed up. He's got a lot of talent out there lately.

You know, I had a caller Jeff from Lufkin say there's more people in Harris County to go to SFA and there are jacks than the cougars. Jeff doesn't know what he's talking about. Just FYI. Are the girls hot at SFA? I'm telling you like the country, you know, country blondes, you know? The country blinds. You know what I mean? All right.

Country blinds. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-790 Gordi I ask you one simple question what's the matter with you I am giving a big shit show but mess up to both YouTube TV and Fox No okay oh I won't let you go first YouTube TV is in a carrots dispute with Fox Sports fans may not get to see the big Texas

at Ohio State game on this Saturday Google which is YouTube TV's parent company says Fox is asking for payments that are way higher than what our other partners with comparable content offerings receive. But Fox claims otherwise. They say Fox is proposing a fair, comprehensive deal to continue our relationship with YouTube TV. Hey, both Fox and YouTube, shut your bum ass up. Fans don't care about your business deals. Get it done.

Stop holding us hostage because y'all can't do good business with each other. Bad negotiating, bad business. get this crap done. All we want to do is watch our sports. By the way, if you have YouTube TV and your sports fan, shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. I'm sorry, YouTube TV does not carry Space City Home Network.

YouTube TV doesn't carry a lot of the sports packages. If you are complaining about not having your sports because you have YouTube TV, shut your boss up. Shit your bum ass up, man, man. Get your own ass up, man, do and get your sports packages. I will say the one workaround for the Saturday is, Big Fox is an over-the-air channel. You can buy an antenna at Walgreens for $10.

Screw it on to the back of your TV, and you can get the game. And nobody got time for that. You should be calling Thomas Sports Enterprise to find out. Remote for you.biz. Whatever it is. All right. Get my company straight. What else is the matter with you?

You got multiple things? I got the NFL announced they're going to relax their restriction surrounding Tom Brady in his role as a Fox broadcast. They're going to now allow him to attend production meetings this season. That's good. Tom Brady, of course, is a partial owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. He will be able to attend production meetings when a broadcast crew meets with the games head coaches and keep players. He was limited last year.

Other restrictions on Brady last year, he was prohibited from publicly criticizing game officials. I didn't realize that in the broadcast booth. But I'm telling Tom Brady to shut his bum ass up. Ain't nobody got time for you having one foot in the broadcast? booth and one foot in the owner's suite. Pick one, dude. Either you're a broadcaster or you're a team owner. You can't be both. Apparently the NFL's creating rules for you on what you can criticize and what you can't. I totally agree with you 100%. I do believe. Now, again, Fox pays him a boatload of cash.

But he's got a chance to make even more cash. When Mark Davis, the owner of the Raiders, is going to offer him a bigger chunk of the team. He's going to wind up leaving the booth. He's going to say, look, I'm giving up a lot of money at Fox, but I can make a lot more as an owner of an NFL team. I totally agree with you on that. I got one more. Shit. You know what? You got firing brimstone. By the way, if you got something you are mad about, 713212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90, what do you

got? Ohio State shut your bum-ass up. Oh, here we go. Shut your bum-ass up, man. Fox Sports noon kickoff added Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy to their crew. Whether you like Dave, love him, hate them, whatever, I don't care. But they announced that Portnoy would not be allowed inside Ohio stadium this Saturday as the lead-up to Texas and Ohio State. Well, Ohio State leaks to Yahoo Sports yesterday.

This was not our decision. This was Fox's decision. They decided not to bring Portnoy into the stadium. Well, on Tuesday, Dave Portnoy went public on a video saying, while wearing a Michigan hat, by the way, because he's a known Michigan fan saying, yeah, this was Ohio State and Ryan Day being soft, saying he's a Michigan fan. want him in our stadium. Ohio State ain't nobody got time for you lying

about who is and who isn't allowed in your stadium. You know what? I'm team Ohio State on this. First of all, Portnoy is not a journalist. He's not a reporter. He's not going on the broadcast to be a man who's going to analyze him. He's going there to S-Talk people. He's Pat McAfee of Fox. And Pat McAfee's not a journalist.

He's there to create chaos. So you know what? Ohio State, Good for you. Band these Robes. And we got it in these sports teams, and I'm talking to you, Houston, Texas. It's got to do a better job of stop bringing fanboys into sports media. So good for them, Ohio State.

Gordy, shut your bum ass up. Can you imagine if TNT, NBA on T&T were to come to a Rockets playoff game next year, and the Rockets came on and said, you know what, we've had some history of Charles Barkley. He's not allowed in Toyota Center. That wouldn't happen. That would be soft. That's right, but that's different.

So is this not soft? It's not. First of all, Charles Barkley has way more skins in the game in basketball than Dave Portnoy's going to have in college football. Please. Stop. That was a terrible comparison. You know what? I'm Mr. He's a broadcaster.

He's not a broadcaster. He's a fanboy. Paying him a ton, though. I'm sure they are. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Let's talk to Larry. Larry, what's the matter with you?

Hey, Matt. uh garty i listened to the 10th end of the show sunday and i have to give you props gordon because no way i would have made through that it was about three or four calls to call with some insane and sense what were they at pre-2017 when the astroles were losing 300 games in three years you know what i'm saying man all the people that call it in sunday shut your bum eight Oh, thank you. Shut your bum ass up, man. I'm with you.

If Jim Crane listen to some of our postgame callers, he'd sell the team. Disastrous. Some of those callers and their takes. You know what? We still love you. Now, here's the thing. The only person left is on the screen is Brad. If you want to hear from Brad.

Oh, Lord. Please call. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-21-5-78. Literally anybody gets in front of Brad. 713-212-5-7-0. Can we get that guy who calls in his Brad in Miami on a mobile? You mean Bradward?

He calls them, believe it or not. He's funny. John, then what's the matter with you? I know y'all seen the video with Rampage Jackson's son, Roger Jackson beating up that guy in the WDE ring. If you haven't, it's gruesome. You guys go see it. But I want to say, and anybody got time for this,

because this happens in all professional sports with these guys losing their anger, losing their mental. and start being barbaric. Ain't nobody got time for this in any types of sport. It just ruins everything. Ain't nobody got time. Why I even had dudes try to fight me over track because they lost a race and so like that. Like you letting your, it's just, it's childish.

And this dude beating up almost putting it, almost put him in a coma. It's like attempted murder charge. You guys got to look at it. When did this happen? Three days ago. Oh, the wrestling thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just, it's no, it's no.

I don't. Are we sure that was legit, by the way, because, you know, wrestling's fake. No, you can go watch the video. video, he's throwing haymakers while this dude is knocked out on the ground, body's something and all. And it was like previous beef and they had apologized for it. And this guy went ahead and went in the ring and took it as like revenge. Okay. And I'm a got time for that. No-by got time for that. Yeah, fight guy. I hate fight guy. Guy. Guy who wants to fight publicly. What are you doing? You mean like, you mean like the guy that sent you a DM wants to fight you?

Sure. I was thinking more Avery Johnson's dad fighting with the brother. Oh, I want more. of that. I want more family feuds. That was way more interesting in the Iowa State and Kansas Day game. In 2025 in this day and age with lawsuits and how much you can make at winning a lawsuit, please hit me. Hit me so I can sue your ass.

I like it. Why don't you come to say that to my face? Come say it to my face guy's my favorite. You won't say that to my face. Yeah. 713-212-7-9. Remember, the more you call in, the lesser that Brad has a chance to get on the show. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-2-5-7-90. All right, here we go. 7-13-21-2-5-79. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90. We got James and Garden Oaks and Brad. Woo! That's a one-two punch right there. If you have anything else you want to get to,

7-13-212-5-7-90, if you want to tell somebody to shut their bum-asses up, by the Miko-Rions, uh, chimes in on the, Joe Mixen situation. We'll have it for you coming up at the top of the hour. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We are here on WF-A-N. Let's go to Brooklyn. James. You're on the fan. Yeah, man, thanks, Governor, man. Governor Thompson, for taking my call.

And shout out to you, man, Gordie over there, doing double duty. Listen, I got beef with two people. I got beef with that clown that I heard that was talking to the boy Sean in the morning. Look, when he mentioned, he tried to put in his mouth the comparison of the Manning clan, the Manning family and this young kid named Sanders, I don't know what kind of makeup really this young kid got, but I can tell you one thing. He should have never tried to put Manning on the same platform from him because that family, that family is golden, man, okay?

I don't know what this young kid, Manning got, aren't you the grandson? But give him a chance. Because I think the man is going to do well. And I'm ruling big time for the Texas Longhorn, big time. Okay. Now, this other stupid lady, she's with the box sports and, you know, I don't know how good she is, too, Monty Balanos.

You know, okay, she's the West Coast Apologist and ruling for the Dodgers. But I should know, she should know one thing. If she knows her history, and I don't think she knows her history in baseball, let alone any sport. The Yankees owned Brooklyn. They owned the Dodgers, whether they were in Brooklyn or Los Angeles. So that's it. I'm out.

Shut your bum-ass up, man. New York. Can you please get us someone to sing our station for us? They don't do that anymore. Why now? You mean to tell me we can't get somebody that's listening to our show right now to go into a studio and sing Sports Talk 790?

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah! All those people have retired. Let's just clip that right there. We'll use that. Can't you put the music behind it. Can't do that now. Turn the music down real quick. Here we go.

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We like most of the time. Our affiliations are with... Fox Sports Radio and everything else. But some of the weekend programming that they put on on Fox Sports Radio is less than desirable. Well, people hate our overnight show, too. Well, Ben Mallor is just a fraud. But Moncee out there on a... Who?

Moncee Balano. Who is that? She does weekends. They are based in Los Angeles, and they're all unabashed Dodger homers. So just know that's the take sure. I mean, I wouldn't listen to us on the weekends. I mean, I would like you too, but I'm not going to force you get mad if you don't. It's just what's in between Doug Pike and the Astros game.

Yeah. On Sports Talk 790. Oh, yeah. Mac. What's the matter with you, Mac? Hey, how you all doing? Good. I want to ask this question.

I want to ask this question. With the weight of NIL and the football lives, Why is UT playing Sam Houston for homecoming? Granted, it helps Sam Houston more than it helps UT because they're probably paying them a million dollars. But she like we should be out of that stage of playing the small southern schools and Stephen L. Foster's for the number one ranked school in the state of, in the nation. How do you feel about that? What's the name of this segment?

Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up. Who cares about UT and their home house up? They're playing their homecoming game. They're giving the check and they want to win. Whoever, do you think Alabama, whatever score, whatever schedule Auburn for a homecoming? Oh, hell no. Right back.

All right, guys, I got me on now. All right, I'll see you later. Who's LSU got for homecoming this week or this year? Homecoming. Nobody goes to. Nobody goes to homecoming anyway. For the last 20 years, homecoming's always been one of your crappy games. Ain't nobody got time for homecoming.

You usually want to make it somebody you're going to beat up on. How many? ensure a win. How many homecomings have you gone to at your high school? By high school? At your high school? Once after I graduated? Zero for me.

How many high school? How many college college homecomings you've gone to at SFA, Jonathan? I think one sophomore year at West Kentucky. Was that by accident? Kind of. I got to practice and everything's going on. You might as well stay. You might as well stay.

All right. Yeah, homecoming. Let's get rid of homecoming. It makes no sense. I was always embarrassed because you of age like 10 years ago, we were really terrible. We were everybody's homecoming game. Yeah.

That's when you know you're bad. Somebody is making you their homecoming. It's not good. No. All right. Brad. What's the matter with you, Brad? Gordy's the matter with me.

I called Sunday post game. And I was asking about parades this year. And he said he's not coming back. Then I see a video from Florida. He came back to Houston. and he said he's coming. I don't know what that means. But do your investigative reporting, Gordy.

Nobody got time for your BS. Yeah. Shut your bum-ass up, Brad. If Esock Paratus plays a game this season, I'll buy you steak dinner. You're going to have steak with Brad? No, I'll buy him a dinner. Oh, you're not going to go, I'm not going to go, okay. All right, last call.

713, 212, 570. So we don't think Parade is coming back, right? No, and that wasn't even, it was like... It was kind of a weird Instagram photo. It was a screenshot thing, and then when I went to Parades Instagram, there was nothing on there. So if he posted it, it was a story. It was a story.

So it went away. Right. I mean, that's fine. I want him to be, I want him to think he's coming back. You're not coming back. It was a severe hamstring injury. You're done. Yeah, but that little injected thing, mate,

it made me a miracle worker. You never know. I mean, if you want to pop some pills and get out there, fine, I guess, but you know what would happen, though? He rushes back, he plays in two games, it re-injures it, and then he's a setback, and he's not ready for

the start of next season. I'd rather have you ready for the start of next season. He should have had the surgery. Yes. And I think the player overruled the organization would be my guess. Just a guess on my part. All right. Were you in a state of shock yesterday, Gordy, after the Astros lost that game?

I was pretty shocked. state of shock plus we're going to hear what a very brief comment about what D'Amico says about the Joe Mixing injury status it's all coming up in the next hour it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross he's off today back with me tomorrow and we've got Craigway coming up at 1 o'clock today a little UT Ohio State preview and all things about SFA today at 150 unbelieve it or not 713 212 790 this is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Yeah, we're all a little bit of a shock after the Rockies come in and win game one of the three-game series between the Astros and our friends from Colorado. 713-212579. If you want to chime in, 7-1-3-212-5-790, we'll get a little college football conversation coming in. Craigway, the Voice of the Horns will be with us coming up in less than an hour from now. He'll join us from Austin. It'll be the Longhorns and Ohio State. this Saturday will have it free beginning at 10 o'clock right here on Sports Talk 7.9. But right now it's time for the news at noon.

As you heard, the Astros did fall in game one of the series. Fortunately, the San Diego Padres did knock off the Seattle Mariners last night, 7 to 6. So the Astros still maintain a one and a half game lead over the M's for first place in the American League West. Framber Valdez will take them out today for the local nine. I'll have the on-dex show beginning at 6 o'clock. First pitch will be at 7-10. Chase Dallinger or Dalloner. He's 2 in 10 with an earning of 6.91. I'm going to repeat that. Tonight's starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies has two wins and 10 losses with an ERA of 6.91. The

Astros better beat that ass. I don't really know how much more plan I can say, correct? Correct. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors. The Astros are going to beat that ass tonight. Two in ten with an Ernie of 691. Are you kidding me? The Rockies of the win last night are now 38 and 94.

They have his, they're 17 and 49 on the road. She many Christmas. Come on now. I'm calling it. You ready for this? I'm calling it a must win. Oh? You heard me.

I didn't swear. Yeah, it's a must win. If Fraber Valdez loses tonight to the sucky Rockies because he has another first inning meltdown and Chase Dalinger is 2-10 with an earning of almost seven. And the Astros lose that? All the hell of the season. Guaranteed must-win game tonight, Local 9 right here, 790. I love the Andeck show at 6 o'clock. Mr. Texas said it, guys.

Mr. Texas doesn't lead you astray, does he? Mr. Texas told you that Joe Mixon wasn't going to be ready for the start of the season, didn't he? Here is Domingo Rines a few minutes ago telling us about

what and if Joe Mixon plays for the Texans this year. My expectation is for Joe we're taking it one day at a time and when he's ready to be back, he'll be back. Okay. You hear that was Wexer asking a question there. Was it actually?

Yeah, it's Wex? Good question. Good question. Nice, simple. You expect them back to be back this season. Now, Domingo would go on to say a few more things. Domingo says that reporters can report an accurate story and nothing happens. They just take it down. Hmm. He also goes on to say, everything we do when it comes to injuries, I'm thinking about the player. It's different for me because I've played the game. That's his personal information. information. That's Joe's business. That's not anybody else's business. So we don't talk about it. All right. Turn the music off. This is a very, very, kind of see both sides of this. I think I can.

But I need y'all to help me out a little bit here on the news at noon. He's saying he doesn't want to tell you about Joe's injuries because it's Joe's business. But the business in which he is in is a very public business. It is a business that you follow because you love that team. You chose that team because you want that team to be good. That team, although, by the way, in their business, ask you to spend money with them on tickets and merchandise and beers and sandwiches and whatnot.

It asks you to be there in good times and in bad. Hmm. My, again, this is my philosophy on this, and if you disagree with me, I'm okay with that, because I'd like to hear a different viewpoint on this. I think sports teams are just different. I don't think this is mom and pop's engineering company down the road. This isn't Johnson Manufacturing.

This is a city team. Now, granted, it's owned by the McNair's, and it's run by a general manager and a head coach. And there are going to be guidelines. And there is a line of sportsmanship, not necessarily sportsmanship, but intelligence, that you do not want to give your opponents any sort of advantage. But the reality is this. The NFL has become more and more open to telling us about injuries because why?

Because so much of their sport is bet on. And even though Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL, has said, you know, we have very strict guidelines about gambling. Any NFL show you see, and that's talking about league shows, that's talking about league television partners, the game itself, you see odds, point spreads, over unders. You see some of the biggest betting services about how a player is going to do. Hey, I like this player to throw for more than 300 yards. I like to have to see this player rush for this many yards. Or I don't think he's going to do that. You see them on every NFL broadcast.

And hell, you see it with NFL television partners. You see it on NFL pregame shows. If Roger Goodell told ESPN, you cannot have a gambling aspect to your pregame shows, the NFL has such huge stones that ESPN would say. say, okay, all right, we'll back off of it, but they don't. Because even Roger Goodell and the NFL knows that betting is a huge part of it. Now, I'm trying to not equate Joe Mixon's health status to worrying about whether or not people are betting on. I want to make sure I'm very clear on that.

But you do have a vested interest in it. You're not asking to look at his x-rays. You're not asking for his MRI results. I think when legitimate media go to a sporting event and their job is to report on how a particular team is doing, whether it's X's and O's, whether it's injury status, I think the more transparency, the better. Clearly, the Texans, and in particular, D'Amico Ryans, and in particular, Nick Casero, don't believe that. Now, I don't even know, honestly, if my little audience here that tended to is overly concerned. about this. Remember, I'm just talking to myself at this point.

Now, if you guys want to chime in with me one way the other, you can do it, certainly on the phones at 713-212-5-790, or you can let me know on Twitter at SportsMT. But I don't know. I think we've found ourselves with sports teams more in 2025 than we did even 10 years ago,

certainly 20 years ago, where they just, we're not going to tell you. you because that's all right. Now, again, is your water cooler at your office worried about Joe Mixon? Yeah, I'm sure if you're a Texans fan and you are perusing the social media streets or you're with your buddies getting ready to watch the game. Hey, man, I can't wait for Joe Mixon's going to play.

When is Joe Mixon going to come back? I don't know. They don't say. Does it bother you? Are you indifferent to it? Are you like, you know what? That's their business. I kind of, I don't know.

I don't know where to go with this on this. I just think that sometimes when you hide things, more times than not, you're hiding it because it's way worse than you're ever willing to let on. And that you're legitimately concerned about the, when you hide something, it's because something is not right. You've made a miscalculation. You've done something wrong. You didn't set up your lineup right. You didn't set up your roster right. And that if you admit that Joe Mixon was going to be gone for a lot.

long period of time that maybe the Texans didn't do their due diligence in the offseason and go get a better running back or try to at least add additional depth to the back to the to the backfield beyond Nick Chubb. I don't know. These are things I'm mulling over live at 1213. But the Texans are holding firm on this. We hope that Joe comes back and we'll tell you how he's feeling in four weeks. Well, or we'll at least give you an update.

But don't ask us until then. don't ask if he's going to play this year don't ask us what his injury is don't ask us how this happened don't don't give us any details because or don't ask us any questions because we're not going to give you the answers and Damico is right about one thing

if you get something wrong you just erase it but legitimate media companies newspapers television networks usually when you get things wrong you should get fired or you should be not in the position in which you're in not everybody's built that way if you run a YouTube page you can say whatever if you want and if you're wrong, who cares?

But legitimate media sources do get in trouble when they misreport things. So I don't know. I'm just, again, this is just me talking out loud. The Astros found themselves in the city. I mean, this is not just a Texan's problem. This is sports

general problem. And the reality is you have more sports radio stations. You get more sports TV networks. You've got more betting sites. You've got more websites. You've got me. Everything in the mass media of sports has grown. 3,000% in the last 30 years. Some of it good, some of it not so good.

But there is certainly a thought from the Texans to say, we don't have to tell you, so we're not going to tell you. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. I would as a Texans fan, if I was a Texans fan. I don't want to know. Not everything.

but hey Joe's hurt we didn't anticipate this he could be gone seven weeks could be gone 10 here's what we can tell you at this point but to just brush it aside it feels like they're trying to

see why a that's my only point 1215 sports talk 790 713 212 5790 so the fundamental question is how much do teams OU transparency. You are the consumers of those teams. You are the fans

of those teams. Do you want to know or do you when a coach and a manager or a general manager says we take it one day to time, we hope for the very best, we'll let you all know down the road. A media goes, is that satisfactory? Again,

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I do try to do a four-hour radio show to bring up events and it's tough for me to think about what the Texans may or may be able to do if they're not going to be overly forthcoming with what the current set of their franchise is. Again, it's a very, it's not cut and dry. I'll be brutally honest with you. It's not, because again, you do have to, you do have player privacy issues.

You do have an issue with whether or not the player wants you to say anything. But you also are a public franchise, not publicly home. because, again, that's the McNair's, and that's all the NFL owners, but you do rely on your fan base to be vested in your team. Like when you go to a movie, you go see the movie. You may enjoy it and discuss it with your friends for a little bit, but you don't think about that movie for six months, nine months, one year after. When you go to a Texans game or you watch a Texan game,

you think about that game over and over again. You think about that game year to year to year. You think about what they did last year, what they did the previous year, what they're going to do in future years. And that's what sports is that separates it from going to see a movie or watching a television show or attending a theatrical performance. All forms of entertainment. We're not talking about cures for cancer. I want to make sure I'm very clear in putting things in perspective on this.

But I deal in the Toy Department of Life, which is sports. And, you know, there just hasn't been any sort of real legitimate news about. about a very key member of the football team. And look, the Astros have been guilty of this as well. Astros have been more transparent with their injury status the last couple of months because then people are kind of going to look. We love you Astros. We love, and I'm going back to last year, we go back, we loved Kyle Tucker.

We love, you know, what was going on. We want to know. We are, you are a living soap opera for us. And there are new additions to that soap opera every single day. We want updates. Again, you're not asking for MRI results or x-ray. just really, hey, we are vested in you, so the least you can do is give us as much as you can without giving away too much.

But I promise you, as I said before yesterday, the Los Angeles Rams are not surprised that Joe Maxon's not playing in week number one. The Los Angeles Rams have been probably preparing for Nick Chub and Darya Gumuala and others and Damien Pierce. They have not been preparing just try to stop Joe Mixon. Let's go to Mike on 790 at 1224. Mike, what do you got? Yeah, I was just calling.

I think the worst team is the Astros because the way they hide their injuries. I remember with Kyle Tucker, at first it was just a bruise or something to that effect. Right. And then a month later, then they tell us it might be a fracture. The same thing with Yardon. he's got a sore hand, and then a month later, it's a fracture, and it goes on and on. And then I don't know who the training staff is, but they seem to have more pitchers with shoulder problems than any team that I can ever remember. And it's always, you know, they got a sore shoulder, and then next thing you know, in two or three weeks, they'll say, well, they've got to have Tommy John surgery.

Something is wrong with the training staff, in my opinion. Well, you know what? It is very, it's not been a great year, and it's really not been a great couple of years. I can't argue with that. I can't. And the Astros don't make their trainer available. Now, some teams do, some teams do not. The Astros have chosen not to do so.

I will just say this blanket statement, whether it's the Rockets, the Astros, the Texans, any team that you care anything about. Be as forthcoming as you can as long as it doesn't hurt intelligence. meaning you're not the information you'd be giving out would put your team in a distinctive disadvantage over the upcoming opponent or opponents now i'm only speaking to this from the side of being a fan and a guy that gets you know visit with you guys for four hours every day maybe if i was on another side i'd be different if the leagues aren't required me to be overly forthcoming why should i why should i and as i said a little bit ago maybe the players. Like Joe Mixon calls Cassarra and says, look, here's what happened. Or maybe they do know.

Maybe they were witnesses to it. And they don't say anything. We don't want to say anything. We're not going to say anything. But I think there are generally speaking, there are people bumping around town that are lovers of the Houston Texans or any other team in town. You know, we got this during the Kyle Tucker stuff. We aren't on Alvarez this year.

You know, how does a guy have a hand injury, then a fracture, then a swelling, and then it feels better. And then he goes down. I mean, yeah, it's. We've had to play a guessing game. And I guess part of the fatigue for me is that I just got off one long guessing game for the summer. Thankfully, you're on his back. And now I feel like I'm going to be going through another one.

But maybe that's what we have to do as sports fans. Maybe that we are, that's what we have to be ready for in 2025. Because there are so many people that are trying to get clicks. there are so many people that are trying to get, I was first to report this, or I have this hot take of this because of the situation. I would rather just come on do the show and say, hey, Nick Asario today, Dimeco Ryan's today,

said, here's what's going on with Joe. And I could say, man, that sucks. Man, I'm really worried about him. I'm not thinking about, well, what can I do to make a 30-minute podcast out of it? I got a four-hour show to do. And I guess the only second-guessing you would have to say is, well, do you attack the medical staff? Because certainly the Astros medical staff has been much maligned over this.

Or do you go, well, if they knew about Joe Mixon for six months and don't want to say anything, then did they not properly prepare for this season knowing that Joe Mixon probably wasn't going to be ready for the first handful of games? So what Conjecture is. And we're going to be doing a lot of it, I think, until Joe Mixon, does step back on the field. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-9-0. Listen to the show, Tesla bus driver sent me a tweet, says,

Hey, Matt, society has become so damned, I'm entitled. Everyone feels they're owed everything. If a team wants to be transparent or not be, that's their choice. All these people whining and bitching need to shut their bum asses up if they cared about their own lives as much. Is that Is that overthinking to me a little bit? A little bit.

I would agree with you a little bit. I don't think, again, I don't know if the word owed is what I would go with Tesla. I would be like, I'd appreciate. And if they cared about their own lives as much, I got terrific news for you, Tesla. Love you. I care about my family and my friends way more than I care about sports.

Period. And I love sports. But I don't care as much about sports as I care about my family. So I think you've got what you got is a good case of reporters just trying to, if you're a beat reporter like John Alexander is at The Chronicle and you are there to cover the team. The main thing about the team going into the start of the season is they're leading running back. Their big runner is gone for a while. And he's trying to figure out why that is. The same thing with Chandler Rome and Brian McTaggart and Matt Coward

over the Chronicle. I mean, if something is going on, their jobs are too reported. I don't think they're doing it because they're trying to take away what's going on in their own life to look at other people's lives. So, again, this is not a black and white issue. but it's an issue of you know are they doing it is there is there an end game for this

or are they just trying to be we know better than anybody else and we don't think you need to know so we're not going to tell you and I think that's clearly what the Texans are that's their belief is it's better for us to know and not tell you and just to say when he's around to play he's around to play let's go to

Tim on 7.90. Hello, Tim. Hey, how are you guys today? Good. Good. One thing with information given out by the team, and there are more people than myself who are going to be more knowledgeable. But that's the hippilons. Reporters cannot violate hippolys.

You have to be trained in it. It's really for the, the medical industry or in this case that is being supplied, the information is being supplied to the team by the physicians or their offices. HIPAA might play a role in that. That might be why a lot of them are so reluctant to give out more information. Well, there's two things about that, Tim. Number one, the NFL gives out weekly injury reports.

So that would not vibe with HIPAA. I don't think HIPAA comes into play on this because other teams have talked about injury statuses with their players way more than the Texans have. So this is not, if every team and every sport did it that way, Tim, I could probably go with you a little bit on that. But there are other teams in sports and even in the NFL that are more forthcoming with their injury status and the Texans have ever been. and and I understand what you're saying with that but that also can be written into the player's contract where we're going to get your information of injuries and disseminate it so the other teams could have that I mean this is all speculating sure I get it yeah I get it's hope the guy gets back uh and I hope he is healthy I'm hearing of course who knows four weeks has that changed that

is there is no change because when he got put on the non-football injury list, meaning he has to miss the first four games. But there was no declaration as if it was only going to be four games. And see, that's the point to him. You just brought up a great example. You're like, I'm hearing this. Well, you didn't hear it. You just saw the transaction, which

makes you think it's four weeks. It could be nine weeks. It could be five weeks. It could be 12 weeks. It could be the entire season. That's the thing is that now we're speculating where they could have very easily have said, we believe that he is going to be gone seven to ten weeks, or we believe this is a season-ending injury.

That's what we're doing. We're speculating because the Texans have decided, organizationally, and they're not the only ones that have done it, but there are other organizations in sports. The Astros certainly have been the same case that said the lesser information, the better. I get you.

And I'd like to know, but there again, does Nixon want the public to know? That's right. It takes two to tangle on that. Yeah, thanks for the phone call. I get it. Yep.

There could be also, there could be the agent saying, hey, don't tell. Silence. But D'Amico, to me, having been an NFL locker room and playing, he probably understands the player perspective, perhaps more than a guy that's never coached before or never been a player before. So he's going to, he's, he's admitted as much. He signs of the players. He just does.

That's fine. There is a segment of the population that says, when he comes back, he comes back, and we're happy about it. Because there have also been some times where teams have said, oh, we expect me back in four to seven days. And it wants to being three months. We've been burned by that too. It is a little bit of a dand if you do,

dan, if you don't. And I get it. I understand where they're coming from. But they're just, I guess the central point to this is there's a lot we don't know. And today, the accredited media went to try to find out

and got nothing in terms of an answer. Now, I don't think the people that were there went there, and I'm going to go try to got you, Nick Casario, and got you on D'Amico Ryans. I think there are people there that are accredited to cover the team that said, hey, you're number one running back, your guy that's Mr. 1,000 yards, and a guy was explosive and it was a huge acquisition for you,

by the way you've paid good money for, has been nowhere to be found for a better part of three months. What's going on? But I don't think anybody came home to that. I mean, I don't think John Alexander, the Chronicle Beat writer, are sitting at home going, man, I wish he would have told me.

I'm so mad that I didn't get the story. I don't think he's doing that. He's simply reporting that the Texans are not telling you anything. And that's where you as the consumer say, yeah, I'm okay with that. I don't need to know or what's my football team doing? Why can't they be honest with us? Let's go to Jaime on 790 and 1240.

Jaime, what do you got today? Well, I'm just thinking that this age of the internet, everybody wants to know they should be able to Google what's going on with and they expect an answer to pop up. But I think it may be just simply that they don't want to send an age because they, that he's, going to be out for whatever time he's going to say so they could kind of get another running back for it.

Yeah, we're going to let you go, Jaime, because the phone line is bad. If it's your bad phone line or ours, but probably ours, I apologize. I mean, could there, could the cover up be well? Joe's been gone and Joe told him he's going to be ready to go for the start of the season, and he's not. So now I'm sitting here with Nick Chubb and a bunch of other role players when we could have gone out and maybe spent some money in free and say, I don't know, you know, they're certainly not going to tell us that.

Now, that would be intelligence that would be really juicy, but they would never tell you that. I don't know I don't expect it to either. Because, you know, having been on both sides of the wall as part of a team and just talking on the outside, there are juicy stories. There is questions about how forthcoming players can be to their own teams, you know. But again, that remains speculation. Let's go to Gary on 790 and 1242. Hi, Gary. Hey, guys.

Good afternoon. There is, there's not, there's not a definite answer here. It depends on how much you're invested in this, this topic. You, you guys being this, you're highly invested in this because this is your livelihood and everything. Only other thing more important to you, like you stated, is your family. So you're highly invested in this. me, I'm an average fan, although I've watched the Oilers for many, many, many, many years, Astros, the 45s and all that. I'm a casual fan, spend money for the games every once or a while.

So I want to know, but if they don't want to tell me, I'm okay with that. It's no big deal to me. I'll see, when I turn the game on, I'll see if they're in uniform. And you got guys that bet all the time and season tickets and all of that. They're kind of in between me and you on that. They're invested in it in a lot of different ways, so there's really no answer for it. But here's the good news for anybody that's really invested in it. You finally got your answer today about asking about people's injuries.

They're not going to tell you. Now you mentioned a couple of times that maybe they're hiding stuff from it. Well, they're not hiding on the running back. They said four weeks. That's all they know it right now. They can't see four weeks if he's going to play or not. But at this point, that's all they can tell you. So maybe sometimes they don't know and maybe sometimes they get it wrong.

But there's so many different answers on this topic, depending on you as an individual, how much time it's in a year. Yeah, the only thing they probably could have told you more today is that what exactly happened? Why did something? Why is he not available to start the season? No one left that press conference today knowing the answer to that question. what happened to begin with? And why are you keeping that a secret?

I guess would be the core issue of secrecy is, okay, if he's gone for a while, I get that. You can't predict the injury? Yeah, it makes sense. But why won't you tell us what happened? Well, maybe he asked them not to divulge it. That's exactly right. You can't assume anything. Just accept what they said.

You cannot like it and object to it. But just know where they're coming from and that's the way they're going to be. and spend your time and energies on other areas that you're an expert in, which is many. You guys have a great station there. But at least you know that they're not going to divulge you too much information to you in the future. But anyway, that's kind of the way I look at it. All right, thanks, Gary. Yeah, I'm just going to say this.

They're consistent, but you also understand they're not going to get the benefit of the doubt anymore. Think about this in your life. I'm not going to get to a break here. when you are Jonathan you and I are co-workers here you told me your life story

and everything you said honestly and said hey I was late today because of this or not feeling well because of this you'd be transparent with me right

right and I would give you the benefit of the doubt on things down the road when you're not when you're not transparent you're all right Jonathan

man I'm fine and you wouldn't tell me I'm not going to be I'm not going to give you the benefit of the doubt yeah I do that with my kids all the time

I just feel like being transparent, and it's not about that we care more or I feel like it just... We don't care about their lives more than our eyes. Trust me. I will go to bed tonight feeling very good regardless of Joe Mixon's health status. It just makes the fans closer with the team so they know what's going on so they can support and understand, at least from my point of view of it. Yeah. I mean, I don't think people are wavering from their support.

Like, oh, I'm not room for the Texas now. That'd be silly. Right. But I just, you tend to give benefits. of doubts when people are honest with you. If you lie, I'm not saying the Texans are lying, but when you hide, there's always this little cynicism that kicks in. More are you coming up? Craig Way on the Longhorns and the Buckeyes Saturday in Columbus.

Rained through quite a few Twitter responses over of a Tesla's tweet. Bonnie says, not a Texans fan, but no matter the professional sports team, I feel we should be given the actual information on injuries. Additionally, it's also just the flippant manner in which D'Amico has related his response. A bit of defensiveness. Thank you, Bonnie. Ray says lots of truth here. This is from Tesla's tweet.

Teams, though, also get pissed off of media and fans speculate. Well, it's what they do in the absence of information. Freezin says the bottom line is that teams don't owe fans any information. It's a business. But with that in mind, don't be surprised if folks aren't willing to buy anything. into your product. Tesla comes back and says, but what happens when media misreports?

There are no repercussions. That's actually not true. If you're a legit media and you report things that are wrong, you're going to lose your job eventually. You're not going to be on the particular beat. You're not going to be considered credible. And you've got a chance of losing your job

if you miss report things. He says, how can you speculate when you have zero information? Then it becomes false information from the word go. Oh, I think people speculate all the time. Let me give you a real quick example of this. If a team does not want to tell you how a certain player is doing by saying, we have nothing to tell you, what's the easiest way to speculate to it? Serious injury. When a player is gone for three or four days and they tell you, then you go, well, there's no need to speculate.

It's three or four days. But if you don't say anything. anything in our coy about it, then you open yourself for, well, it could be a lot worse. And that's when the speculation begins. So like I said, this is a conversation that can run a variety of ways for sure. Let's go to Clay and Hockley on 790 and 1254. Hi, Clay. Hey, Matt.

Hi. Hey, I just wondering, is this thing, because I watch a lot of out-of-market football games. I don't watch a lot of out-market baseball games. but it seems like football is more transparent about it because they always say players should just come back week 8 or week 12 and you know I don't know if it's it's like this in other markets now baseball

I don't know if the secreties like this in other markets as well because I know the Astros keep everything so close to the cup right just wondering if you know anything about you know the other markets and they're pretty much centered to what we're getting here I don't know I can't speak for 31 other teams now during the NFL season Clay you have to once a regular season, you have to report an injury report. That is mandatory, and they do it multiple days

during the week. They do not require teams to do that during the preseason. So I don't know how it's going to look on Joe Mixon's injury report, but I don't even think he's even to have to put on the injury report because he's on that special list. I could be wrong about that, but I think that they don't only have to put injured players on that list that are a part of the active roster. And right now, Joe is not a part of the active roster. Let's high Jaime wants to get back here. We put it, Jaime, back on line five. It's going to be a bad thing, Jaime.

What do you got? No, I'm just wondering if they're not sharing that information because they're trying to get a replacement. And if teams know that they're going to have them out for a certain period, they may try to hold out and try to get some more draft picks, higher draft picks, et cetera. No, because it's too late in the game for that. I mean, the NFL season starts next Thursday.

I mean, I don't think this information was new to them even at the start of training camp. I mean, remember, he didn't take part of any off-season activities at all with the team. Well, it goes back to the point is that they knew, but they didn't want to share that because they were trying to work a deal. They got Chubb and that other guy, but, you know, I don't know. I think now in the day and age of search engines, we expect to have information at our fingertips, and when we don't get it, we're kind of upset about it. Well, again, some people, thank you for the phone call. Some may not be in your phone.

I was much better there. I'm very happy about that. Some people may be upset. Some people, again, I'm just an information guy. I'd rather not speculate. That's not fun. Because here's the thing, is that when you do speculate, half the time you're wrong, right?

Or more than that. It'd be way easier for me to go, all right, How are the Texans going to... Now look, with Mixon being gone for the first four weeks, there's no need to speculate on what the team's going to have to do. They're going to have to go with a steady diet of Nick Chubb. And maybe, you know, you've got Marks who comes in. And maybe Damien Pierce has a more active role.

There's no need to speculate about that. So in that one respect, we don't have to speculate. But I don't... I think when you are in season preview mode, and you are thinking about, man, Is my team going to go 11 and 6 this year? Is my team going to go 9 and 8? Is my team going to go 12 and 5?

Is my squad going to be able to win the Super Bowl? This is a prime speculation season, regardless of whether or not Joe makes it was healthy or not. But just adding his uncertainty with health is only going to contribute to people going, well, is my team really going to be good enough to make this happen and be good and maybe make that Super Bowl run. Let's get to Craig Way. He is the voice of the Texas Longhorns.

We will join us next as we get the final hour of the Matt Thomas show coming up with Ross. He's off today, back with us tomorrow. I want to tell you once again about how you want to get an equality home. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This Saturday, 10 o'clock, Sports Talk 7.90 will be your home for Texas football. Longhorns taken out on the Ohio State Buckeyes and Columbus, Amanda will call it longtime voice of the Longhorns. and a great host and a great broadcaster, Craig Way, the voice of Kingwood Baseball and Softball Championships.

Is that right, Craig Way? Hey, that was a moment of pride for me, Maddie. I didn't do the softball, but I did do the baseball state championships. Yeah, I guess I was happy to do that. Yes, they were very happy to have the local school taken care of it. Hey, let me ask you your philosophy. You've called a lot of season openers in all your years of college football. What's it like to have this sort of, I mean, prime time, number one kind of showdown so early.

This is something we didn't see a whole lot of 15 or 20 years ago. Yeah, I think I can count the number of times where you had a game even approaching this magnitude on one hand and probably use less than three fingers to do it. I remember the Charlie Strong debut was in South Bend, but everybody was kind of expecting it to not go well, and it did. not go well. It was like 383, Notre Dame winning that. There have been a couple other high-profile games like that. In 2016, they had that Sunday night over Labor Day weekend, that crazy double overtime win over Notre Dame. That's when Joe Tessator uttered the famous ugly words, Texas is back, and the Long Warns never stopped hearing that for the next several years. So you

had that. But I don't think anything quite approaches this, Matt. It's, In the, whatever, 38 years I've been on the network, and this will be by 25th season in the play by play chair. This is the most excited, highly anticipated hike matchup, I think, that I've ever seen for a Texas season opener. And yes, some of it has to do with the new guy taking snaps under center. There's a lot of attention and excitement around that. But I just think overall there's a great deal of anticipation based on what Sark has built

over the last two years going 25 and 5 and back-to-back trips to the college football playouts. So there's a lot of things built into the excitement of this upcoming season opener. And I apologize, Craig, for so much future Archmanning conversation. But the reality is the quarterback in college football is such a pivotal part of things. You know, he showed some great scrambling ability during the course of last year, the limited time that he plays. Forgetting about what Coach Sark wants, when Craig Ways calling the game, how much do you anticipate him using his legs to get some first downs, get those extra yards?

Oh, I think he'll do it depending on, you know, the type of protection he has. And also with the play calls at Sargads, because they plan to use his, what is it, coaches like to say, functional mobility. I think they plan to use his legs in ways that they could not do with Quinn viewers. Quinn was a little more mobile than a lot of folks wanted to give him credit for. But Arch, I think, takes it to a different level. We saw that on that long touchdown run against UTSA. We saw it on running around the corner against Texas A&M to score the touchdown. You know, he's a big guy and he's a fast guy.

And I think they plan to use that part of him as one of the things in his toolkit, so to speak, to make him more effective on the field. Matthew Golden hurt my feelings when he left my school to go to yours. And obviously it was a big impactful part of last year's team. How's the receiving core overall? Yeah, what a great guy and an outstanding receiver as well, and I hope it goes well for him in Green Bay. I do think that while he moves on to the NFL, they do have plenty of dangerous receivers. Ryan Wingo, I think, could wind up being the top receiving target.

He's got great wheels and good hands and that escapability. You have that. DeAndre Moore is a veteran guy. I'll tell you another guy. Parker Livingstone is a guy who could surprise some folks. He catches about everything thrown his way. And then from the tight-in spot, even though they lost, you know, an outstanding tied-in, they come back with another one in the Cal Transfer Jack injuries.

So I think all of that makes them, if not every bit, the equal receiving threats they had last year, darn close to it, I would imagine going into the opener. Craig, will the portal be a huge part long term? and look, we're balancing NIL money with portal money, with the fact that it's the University of Texas and the great national brand that it has. How much is this year's roster put together because of the portal and do you anticipate and how does Sark feel about the next five years?

When he'd like to have, you know, look, you're going to have money, you're going to have an opportunity for some kids to really do well with now the $20.5 million new adjustments and all that. Can you go back to not having to spend a lot of time grabbing kids from other schools, or do you think it's going to be a part of college football for the foreseeable future? Yeah, I think it's here to stay. Now, with regard to Texas, Matt, you know, SART likes to use it, I think, more as a supplemental piece.

And again, picking up a guy like Jack Indry's to step in to the tied end spot, I think is important. But they're still going to cast their lot with a high school talent predominantly in the state of Texas. And as Sark likes to say, roster retention, being able to. able to take care of those guys who are coming back through the expanded NIL universe as it is. So I think that it'll be a part of it. But you know what it reminds me of Matt? It reminds me of that. What was that famous quote from Ben Scully about use of statistics by broadcasters?

They should be used like a lamppost, unlike a drunk. They should use the lamp post for illumination, not for support. and I think that in this case you would be looking at Texas wanting to add a piece here, add a piece there, but not to make up the bulk of the roster or even the most key spots in large number of the roster. It's to supplement, not necessarily to build a roster. Craig Way, voice in Longhorns with us on our sister station, KVET, in Austin. Of course, you'll have a game right here on 790 beginning at 10 o'clock.

If I looked at the Ohio State practices, which you're not allowed to, and very few people are, compared to the last time they took the field winning a national championship, how different on the Buckeyes from year to year? Well, there's some differences, and there's a similarity in the differences if that can be said between these two teams. And here's what I'm talking about. Texas, of course, is replacing as starters all of their offensive linemen except D.J. Campbell. but the guys who are going to be playing have a lot of experience. They were in the rotation. Trevor Goosby will start at left tackle.

He had to start a couple of games, including the SEC championship game because of the ankle injury to Kelvin Banks. So he had to step in and do that. So there's a lot of guys with skins on the wall who played quite a bit in the rotation, even if they weren't starters. That's on the Texas offensive front. The Ohio State defensive front is in a similar situation. Their four down linemen are all gone. But the guys who are stepping in the play are all veteran experienced guys who drew a lot of snaps.

And I think, you know, with the larger power for programs, especially the ones near the top of their leagues like these two are, you're going to see that be the regular thing because the depth is built in and the depth is such that they can rotate a lot of guys in to keep their starters fresh. And so by the time those guys who are rotating in become starters, they've had enough experience where they can step in without it being too much of a learning curve. As the voice of the team, Craig, you get a chance to go to a few practices of the squad that you are covering.

What was the one group, position group that perhaps surprised you? Not necessarily that was poor going in, but, man, exceeded what you saw when the limited time you were able to check out the team practice-wise. Well, I do think, like I said, I thought the offensive line performed well. I was also really curious to see, Matt, how the running backs would do, because remember, C.J. Baxter had a really good freshman season and then had the knee injury in fall camp last year, had to miss all the last year. But what happens is Trey Weisner rushes for over a thousand yards. Well, to see how those two will work together in combination. And there will be times where they'll be on the field together.

even is I was very curious to see how that would take and how that would work and it seemed to work out really, really well. So I was quite impressed with that. The way the secondary has become multifaceted, where a guy like Jalen Gilbo, who has played the starback, that's the nickel position or safety, and he's set to be a starting corner. And all of these guys have cross-trained and a lot of those areas. Same thing with the linebackers. Anthony Hill has played in the middle. He's played on the edge, and he's a preseason All-American. So the cross-trained of those guys, I think is really, really important. And that was one thing that was impressive in the Paul Camp workout.

Last question. Which moment will be hopefully not too big? And I'm meaning in terms of, look, your squad has played in national semifinal games and have been in the tournament and done all these types of things the last couple of years. But still going to the horseshoe is going to be big for some young men. So are there one or two guys that you're kind of curious about, whether they're transfers, whether they're two freshmen that are getting rotation time in the depth chart, that you're kind of curious to see how they handle.

being in front of 105,000 people that are they going to hate you? Yeah, I think there's always that curiosity. You know, the question has come up the last few years about, you know, how will a Texas defensive front perform? And that question comes up every single year because of the guys that moved on to the NFL. But the guys who are stepping in, I think,

are ready for that challenge. And then obviously everybody's going to be watching March to see how he is in the moment. But he's got a great calm demeanor about him. He's very laid back, but he's very much a competitor. And he's dialed into being prepared for this thing. So I'm looking forward to watching him like everybody else is. How many games have you done at Ohio Stadium?

How many over your career? Uno. Just that one, and it was pretty doggone memorable. I was going to say, man. How does this happen? How do these two, I mean, franchise-type schools only play each other once every 20 years? That's crazy. And when they played in 2000,

five. It was the first time they'd ever met. And then, of course, he had the rematch here in 06, Ohio State won that one. Then they played in the Fiesta Bowl in January of 2009. It was an incredible performance by Colt McCoy in that one. And then they didn't play again until the Cotton Bowl last year. And so they have this home and home. They'll play this year in Columbus and they'll play next year in Austin. In fact, Matt, the non-conference schedule for Texas, pretty impressive when you look at it coming. because it's Ohio State will be here next year. Then Michigan, for the return game in Ann Arbor from last year, Michigan will be here in 2027. Then they have a home and home in Notre Dame in 2028 and 29. And then after that, I think they've got a home and home with Arizona State. And, of course, the SEC when they announced last week that they were going to a nine-game conference schedule, they wanted also to mandate that all of their schools play at least one power four opponent. per season. Well, Texas already has that taken care of with their schedule through the end of the decade.

Have fun, my man, and looking forward to hearing your calls all year on 790 for football and basketball. Thank you for the visit, and we may bother you again later this season, and good luck with your show. What's on the big show today between two and five? We're going to hear from Archmanning this afternoon. So it'll be interesting. And by the way, speaking of my man, how's it going with my man, Kevin Durant? How's it going with KD? now. He hasn't been here yet.

We haven't seen him. He didn't come back for the introduction yet. We're not best. He's just yet. Ryan Hollins and I have a bet, but we're trying to convince him to go, the three of us are going to have dinner at some point this season. We've got a little small wage that's going to happen. So, you know.

I hope that happens. He's a good dude. Yeah, I'm looking for very much forward to it. Craig, thank you again for the time. And again, looking forward to your call this year on 790. We appreciate it as always. Thank you, Matt. Appreciate it.

Talk to you, too. That's Craig Way. one of the very, very talented, first of all, talented play-by-play broadcasters, and second of all, just a super guy. Voice of the Longhorns, 9 o'clock, say 10 o'clock with the pregame show, 11 o'clock with a kickoff. It'll be the Buckeyes and the Longhorns right here on 790. 116 is our time. We'll get back on the Astros, and Brian Bogus have a conversation coming up at the bottom of the hour.

If you missed that earlier today, we'll have it for you next in about 50 minutes right here on Sports Talk 790. Always good catching up with Craig. he loves him some high school football too when he calls a game I'll tell you what high school the kid went to junior high what he ate for elementary in the fifth grade I think he's got some in that head of his

look I have cheat cheats when I call games for anecdotal purposes and stuff he's got it memorized I guarantee Craig knows what high school I went to he probably said I'm going on with Matt I got to remember he went to May Creek High School 123 sports talk 790 i uh i put the MLB network game on the Yankees are leading the nationals

nine to nothing in the bottom of the third they've already hit like five home runs in the game you already for an unpopular take i'm scared of the Yankees they can slug the hell out of the ball Aaron judge just hit a base hit to left field i mean he just he just extended his bat It just threw it out there. And it, oh, God. I want the Astros a slug. I want the Astros hit a bunch of home runs. I need Yon and Alvarez to do it, even though I said it's zero.

I can't listen. I had one run yesterday with Hunter Brown on the mound. Two defense. I need good defense in a couple of runs. Astros did not provide much of either yesterday. I got to keep reminding myself, it's baseball. because remember, if the Astros do in the next two games, it's a winning series, and they will do no worse than keep their game and a half lead in the division.

I did, remember I felt dirty on gut feelings yesterday, Jonathan? I said they were going to go six and four on this homestand. I was going to bring that up because I was like, you already got your one on four. I mean, I'm pacing that way, right? Not the series we expected it, you know. Well, again, things can change. I wasn't expecting it to be Well, maybe I was expecting it to be

This week, maybe that's part of my problem. From Berveldes. Come on, my man. Forget about your 10 years of future Houston Astro. We got to first of all talk about the here and out. And ultimately, we need you to be good so you can go get yourself some money this off season.

I mean, he's going to strike it rich. He's a left-hander. He's durable. He's a boatload of games. And when that 12 to 6 curb balls work in beautiful, beautifully, it's a thing of, it's just a work of art. But man, when his daubber's down, he doesn't do a very good job of hiding it, that's for sure. Oh, Commissioner Adams Silver's at the game today.

Silver doesn't come to the Astros games. I'm going to get him back. He's going to go here to Houston for that. All right. So that's kind of what I'm thinking is that Framber has got to do a much better job tonight. His defense can be good around him. and the guy that's pitching today for the Astro, for the Rockies, has an ERA of seven. Seven.

Come on now. You hear me, ladies and gentlemen, I'm guaranteeing you a must. This is a must win, and it's a guaranteed win. Because I can't imagine how grumpy you folks are going to be tomorrow if the Astros lose this game. Or for that better, lose another game in the series. The Rockies are wretched. the angels are not much better. And you better get fat and happy off of these next handful of games

because the Astros road trip is going, or a homestine is going to end with the team. It is up 9 to nothing on the New York Yankees are on the Washington Nationals in the bottom of the third inning. Maybe the Yankees will be too tired after hitting all these home runs against the nationals. They won't be able to score against the Astros. You never know.

All right, Brian Bogus Sevik will give us his thoughts and the disappointment of what he saw yesterday in the home opener of this long homestand. Again, the Astros lost, but so too to the Mariners. Thank you, San Diego. You were up 5-0, then fell behind 6-5, then 1-175. That is a blessing. 127 on Sports Talk 7.90.

Earlier today, our friend Brian Bogacic joined to Gordia me for a conversation on the Astros. He does every Wednesday live at 11 o'clock. So if you miss them here, you can always get him at Wednesdays at 11. And we talked about the buzzkill that was the loss yesterday, not only being home, having Yordaum back, having the Rockies in. Should have been on an easy win, right? Well, Bogie and I discussed that, among other things, all things Astros. Yeah, you know, we said on the pregame show with as much adversity as the

team had to fight through and all the stuff that they had to overcome, it finally felt like things were lining up in their favor. There's a lot of stuff going for them coming in, whether it be the offense getting it going in Baltimore, Yordaunt's back, hunters on the mound, you know, you've got the worst team in baseball coming into play. And it just feels like a missed opportunity, right? Like, you know, you see it all the time in individual games. You miss opportunities to score runs and it comes back to bite you. This is, you know, the scheduling equivalent of second and third nobody out.

And they didn't take advantage of it. So the big question mark has been, with last night, a couple of walks for Yorda, which has always been pretty good at doing that, is the protection behind him. I know many years ago we were growing up. We talked about line up construction a lot. It feels like we don't talk about it nearly as much here in 2025, generally speaking. But let me ask you, how do you protect him from getting on base a couple of times because other teams are like we're not going to pitch to him?

Well, you've got to have run producers behind him, right? If you're pitching around somebody that inevitably means there's going to be opportunities with runners on base behind him. and, you know, Christian Walker had those opportunities yesterday, didn't work out. You know, if you look at the body of work for Christian Walker over the last two months, basically, his numbers are very similar to what they were last couple years in Arizona, the guy we thought we were getting, you know, he drove in a bunch of runs on the road trip. Did it happen yesterday? No, but, you know, as of right now, he's the guy. He's the guy who, you know, before Yordon came back was your best option as a run producer.

So now you stick him behind Yordon and hope that a couple chances he can cash in on. And then all of a sudden you've got to pitch to Yordon. Yeah, that's what I was going to say, Brian. I mean, you know, Walker was so encouraging in that Baltimore series. He was, you know, hitting home runs. And it was like, all right, maybe he's getting going here. And then, you know, an O for three night last night. I just, you know, again, maybe it was just you went up against a pitcher that's

feeling himself right now. It's so funny. I was looking at Tanner Gordon. What did he give up like 10 runs two weeks ago to Arizona? And then he goes one run against the Dodgers, one run against the pitcher. one run against the Astros. So sometimes you just run into a guy who's just pitching well. But I think that's the biggest thing.

The Matt's point is, okay, Yordaun's back, great. But yeah, if teams are going to walk him, you need somebody you're driving those runs. But Christian Walker has just been so inconsistent all year. I'm just, I'm worried about him being the guy behind Yordaum. Maybe, but I certainly have to give it more than one game to really dissect it. I mean, if you look at the opportunities yesterday, he had a ball, I forget, which inning it was, maybe the fifth or sixth inning. He lined out to left field to end the inning with runners on base.

The ball had an expected batting average over 900. It was just a good play right at a guy. So, you know, you can't just say you went over. It's not working when the guy, you know, hit a line drive that could have easily gotten down. His first at bat, the inning that, you know, the end of the first inning, it was a good pitch to hit. He barreled it, just got under it, under it, flew out to center field. You know, as long as it's not looking overmatched,

As long as it's not, hey, they are targeting you and attacking you one specific way because they have found a weakness that they know they can go to time and time again. If he's in a good spot swing-wise, if he's getting good pitches they hit, let him go out there for more than a couple of games and really see because, you know, he's produced runs better than most guys on the team. I mean, I think there's, you know, RBIs with two outs. He's at the top of the American League. He's got, you know, a high percentage of RBIs to games over the last two months or so. So he's been getting it done, but certainly didn't yesterday. Starting pitching, it's a weird time right now. Look, we know Javier's working his way back in the form.

Lance is still trying to work his way back into form. Evergetty, very encouraged from his last outing, you know, after a dismal outing before it. So, okay, starting to maybe these guys running in a form, but if this team's going to do anything in the postseason, Brian, It starts with Hunter Brown and starts with Framper Valdez. And Hunter Brown last night, an uncharacteristic weird night where, yeah, he only gives up two earned, but you still give up six runs and you lose six to one. I look at tonight with Fromber and this is a big start for him. I'm sorry.

I mean, I get it's Colorado, but a 733 RA this month. Framber's been bad. The last four starts. Like, I've got to see good vintage Frumber here to feel good about myself. And if he's not, man, I'm starting to hit the panic button because I'm going, by two automatics, Framber and Hunter Brown, if they can't get it done, like, you really start to get a little bit worried. No, absolutely.

I mean, this team's playoff hopes hinge around kind of bookending a game, right? It's starting pitching and it's back of the bullpen. And it starts with the two big guys at the top of the rotation. You had the two big guys at the back of the bullpen. You're already down one of them. So that are those four guys that are out of the mix now with hitter being down. So it becomes even more important to be getting quality start after quality start from Hunter and Frumber.

And for Frumber, we got to see the stuff look like it's supposed to. And there's going to be times when you get hit a little bit, especially a guy who is a big ground ball pitcher. Balls are going to find holes, all that stuff. But his curve ball, two of his last three starts, has not looked right. He hasn't been getting ground balls at the same rate that he typically does. There are some mechanical things that are affecting the stuff. and if he doesn't have that high-end stuff

and they don't have a big two at the top of that starting rotation, it's going to be really difficult to go out there and try to run through a couple series in the playoffs. And you'll be able to tell, you'll be able to tell today because when his curveball is working,

it's a really high swing and miss pitch and the Rockies swing and miss more than anybody in baseball. So if he's not able to rack up whiffs with that curve ball today, it's still not right. Do you think, Brian, that is something he works on on the days he's throwing when he's not in the rotation and not pitching? Or is it something that he's got to make a self-assessment on when he's in the bullpen get ready for the start that night?

No, that is a definitely work on during the week. I mean, when his sinker and his curveball, both with the amount of movement that he has on those pitches, release point is key, right? you've got to know where you're going to let that pitch go to know where it's going to land based on how much movement it's got on any given day. And your mechanics have to be really synced up and right for you to be able to adjust that based on what you've got that day. So, you know, you go out there, you try to be really consistent with your mechanics and the throwing program when you get off the mound in between starts and, you know, know, know where you can start that pitch to land it where you want. And then when you go out there during the game, you know, there are some guys starting pitchers. who, if you have a really deep repertoire, if you're a five, six pitch guy,

if you don't have a pitch working, you can just scrap it and go with something else. A hunter does that all the time. We've seen Lance McCullors do it at times. But Framber, essentially a two-pitch guy, we'll see him go to more changeups or incorporate a slider every once in a while, but he's got to find ways to find the thinker and find the curveball.

He's done it at times this year. When you see him subtracting velocity from his fastball, that's when he's really trying to find that shape to kind of set everything in motion. he's got to find a way to find it early today. The narrative after last night's loss, and obviously things can change, especially if the Astros win the next two games of the series,

as the Astros really play well against the upper echelon teams, the first place teams, the Waldcard teams, but man, they can struggle mightily with the second tier squad. Last time at home, Baltimore, that was a miserable series, the game last night. Are we talking coincidence? I don't believe, Brian, that the Astros Clubhouse shuts the door.

at 615 before 710 first pitch and says, boys, we got this handled. So if that's not the case, which I believe it isn't the case, then what is it? Why does this team have its issues against teams that are significantly under 500 or out of the pennant race? It's got to be coincidence because there's nothing else that makes sense. I mean, you've got too many guys who have done it at a high level for so long to think that they're just, you know, can go out there and be outclassed by some of those bottom of the division teams on such a consistent basis.

And also, you know, maybe if you're talking middle of June, July, can you overlook somebody maybe not be as locked in or let the wear down of the season get to you a little bit? Sure. But when you're talking about 30 games left and a one game lead in the division and a team breathing down your neck, the focus should be there to not overlook a team like the Rockies or a team like Baltimore. So, you know, it's got to just be coincidence because we see what the best. version is. We see them go out there

and go toe to toe with the Phillies and with the Dodgers and we see what the good can be. So why we don't see that against the lesser teams I think it's just kind of a random happenstance of the up and downs of the season and it's just lined up to where they haven't been playing well.

Last question, we get Yordon back, maybe Myers, hopefully the next handful of days after rehabilitation starts in Sugar Land. Do you suggest any seismic shift in the everyday starting lineup, especially if it goes seven deep, or do you think the way it's kind of put together right now, it's okay?

No, I'm fine with the way it's put together now. Obviously, everything is fluid, and if you start getting, you know, eight, ten games in and things aren't working out, maybe you shuffle it around a little bit. I think the biggest thing that we're going to see in terms of kind of fluidity in the lineup or the construction during any given day is how do you incorporate El Tuve at,

DH left field second base with now Yordon into the mix. Who's going to get the bigger share of DH? How are you going to keep each of them fresh from being out in left field? That's going to be interesting to watch. I mean, they're both going to be in there every day. So just how Joe gets it done and seeing how he thinks he can maximize, you know, the team defensively with those guys. But no, I think you're getting to the point to where we're going to see a pretty consistent

group of six to seven guys every day. All right, that again is Brian Bogussevic. We look forward to always grabbing him for a good conversation. Wednesday's here on Sports Talk 790. Now, Jonathan, Stephen Fawston State University is today's edition of Believe it or not. Did you happen to look at the question so far? No, I actually have not. I think they're fair.

I don't take any pot shots at your school because it's a good school. I have plenty of friends that went to SFA. Okay, wait. And I consider you a friend. All right, all right. No dis. No dis. All right. The dis, you'll be getting,

will be at about 10 o'clock on tomorrow night. When I'm looking at about a 42 to 3 score somewhere in that range, maybe you'll get a touchdown late to make it 40, maybe 4510 somewhere in there. I'm thinking 2714 SFA. Oh. Now, I'm sorry, I almost coughed up my lunch there. Yeesh. There is a story that is very interesting, according to Darren Ravel.

This is from Bleacher Report and from Darren Ravel. Bill Belichick, North Carolina coach, and his girlfriend Jordan Hudson have filed a trademark for the term gold digger with the intention of using it to create a line of jewelry and key chains per Darren Revelle. They've also filed trademarks for Chapel Hill, Bellistrator, The Trail of Salty Tears, no days off and the Belichick way. Chapel Hill?

Chapel Bill, excuse me, not Chapel Hill. You know, I'm glad you're correct to me. And I'm going to say the following statement, okay, Jonathan, and I mean this with very much respect. You ready for the statement? I'm here, I'm here. This bitch is crazy. Insane.

This is, I couldn't, that's just, ah. She's wacko. Do you think Bill Belichick would have time to think about trademarking any of these things. Again, here they are real quick. Gold digger, Chapel Bill, Bellistrator,

the Trail of Salty Tears, no days off, and the Belichick way. Yeah, I've even wanted anything to even put the... Well, he's won a lot of stuff. Well, I'm being saying in college, it's a completely different ballpark.

That's his biggest criticism is how, if he will survive in college and raise these, you know, a kid instead of these grown men. gold sheet now it's g-o-l-d-space d-ig-ig-g-e-r i wonder if it's different than the is gold digger typically one word or two words you know that's a good question i don't think i'd find that stuff out but i'm gonna say by i'm gonna stay by my statement the bitch is crazy she just is that's unreal i mean i'm serious she he's trying to resurrect his college his college football career is coaching career and she's worried about trademarking

phrases for jewelry. She's like, I gotta do something fucking I'm going to sleep with a 75 year old. Who's gonna buy that? That's my thing. Oh, you think, you know what? Well, let me tell you. North Carolina wins, they'll buy it. They don't want, they go two and ten this year. They won't be

interested in any of it. All right, five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply called it B. Leaving it on and here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe it Not is all things about Stephen F. Austin State University. I'll read your statement about Stephen F. Austin. State was completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. You have a statement to hear of you. You'll say this. Not to believe it or not, win you a fantastic prize.

In a matter of fact, we got lots of great prizes. We'll start today with looking at this list. Here we go. 790 T-shirt. Pair tickets to see the Cougars take a lot. on Stephen F. Austin in the Lone Star Stampede this Thursday, tomorrow night at TDUCS Stadium. Tickets available at UHcougars.com slash tickets. You can also get a pair of tickets to see the weekend at the Energy Stadium this Sunday, August 31st, or a pair of tickets

to see this fix at the House of Blues on September the 3rd. Tickets for those two events are available at Ticketmaster.com. Matt on 790, Matt, what was your favorite part of today? You send the two radio show. Well, our famous Astros talk, all the above as well. The average SAT score for entrance to SFA is 1070, 1070. Believe it or not? I believe it. You should.

Believe it. That's a win. Honestly, Jonathan, I was thinking more on the long lines of 850, but that's not here nor there. Joe on 790, Joe, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it, Matt. demographic at SFA. 36% male, 64% female.

Believe it or not. Believe it, Matt? That is correct. There you go. You finally won. The streak is over, my friend. Thank you. Let's go to Larry on 790.

Larry, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. SFA's mascot is the lumberjacks. The other name that was a finalist, the pine cones. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's a believe it as well. Yes.

I didn't know this one, no. Woo. 713, 212.5.790. Tyler on 790, Tyler, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. SFA is in the second season of competing in Conference USA. Believe it or not? Not.

That's right. They're in the Southland. These are too easy, right? We have four winners so far. Damn. I'm losing my... Well, this is Ross's bit. Roger on 790.

You ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it, Mr. Texas. The F and Stephen F. Austin is Franklin. Believe it or not? Believe it? No, it's Fuller. Sorry. I was nervous for a minute there.

Richard on 790, Richard. What was your favorite part of today? 10 to 2 radio show. Definitely the Astros talk, man. Bum Phillips' first head coaching job. was leading the lumberjacks from 1961 to 1964. Believe it or not? Not.

Nope, he just went to school there. You're a winner. Congratulations. All right, this will finish it off. Leslie on 790, Leslie, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, Matt. SFA was one of the last schools in the country to offer a Starbucks coffee on campus because the university president at the time wouldn't pay the franchise fee. Believe it or not.

Believe it. No, I made that up. Come on. Absolutely terrible. Leslie, we love you. I was pretty proud of myself of that one. That was a pretty good one. All right, we got time for one more call.

The next person comes in. Here we go. Somebody going to call in 30 seconds. There's what else. Take it right now. Alfred on 790. You ready to play, believe it or not? I'm ready to go.

Let's go. You can get a degree in cybersecurity at SFA. Believe it or not? Not. You can. How about that? that. The things you learn about SFA. And they're going

to S-B tomorrow. That is what I'm saying right now. 45 to 10, maybe. Up next, Clinton, Waxler, the A team. I'll talk to you folks tomorrow at 10 a.m. Oh, I'll talk to you tonight at 6

because I'm going to work beyond my four-hour on-air shift. Like others, I don't know, or maybe do know really, really well. Astros at 6. I'll talk to you then on 790. Thank you.